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IRELAND

Members of the public take a moment to remember Jo Cox MP who was attacked and killed yesterday. Sam Boal Sam Boal

• The former Minister responsible for introducing pay-per-weight waste charges has said he did not envisage price hikes under the new system.
• A woman who was abused by Eamon Cooke has said that she has no doubt that the convicted paedophile ‘had it in him’ to kill Philip Cairns.
• The cost of sending letters around Ireland and internationally is set to rise from next month.
• Gardaí are appealing for information on the whereabouts of 74-year-old Kathleen Reilly, who is missing from Athlone.
• A man in his late 20s has been arrested in connection with the killing of dissident republican Michael Barr.
• Veronica Guerin’s husband, Graham Turley, has extended his condolences to the husband of slain British MP Jo Cox, saying she was “just doing her normal day’s work as Veronica was”.
• A new inquiry has found that it was a ‘mistake’ for the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) to instigate a criminal investigation into the actions of a garda after the death of a woman in a road crash.
• New Communications Minister Denis Naughten has said that the controversial Eircode system is ‘saving lives’.
• The PSNI has come under fire for the punishment dished out to trainee constables nabbed cheating in an exam.

INTERNATIONAL

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#BRITAIN: The Prime Minister David Cameron has called for an ‘end to hatred in politics’ as Britain mourns murdered MP, Jo Cox.

#FLIGHT MS804: The second black box from the EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean sea last month killing all 66 people on board has been recovered. 

#DEATH CAMP: A former SS guard has been hit with a five-year jail term by a German court for his role at a Nazi-run camp in occupied Poland.

INNOVATION

• One phone company is letting you access social media free – and that could be a problem.
• The internet is 25 years old in Ireland today.

PARTING SHOT

People have been sharing their memories of Bill O’Herlihy during the Euros.

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