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IRELAND
The amount people paying their water bills has almost halved, for Irish Water has confirmed. Irish Water said households paid €18.3m for drinking supplies and waste water treatment during January to March as new bills were sent out in April and May when the Government announced plans to suspend charges for nine months.
A new initiative aimed at supporting people moving to the heart of west Waterford has been launched.
A nationwide supply shortage has fuelled a rise of over 2% in the price of the average house in the last three months, according to a national survey carried out by Real Estate Alliance.
Revenge porn is not illegal in Ireland despite widespread criminalisation elsewhere, writes
A group set up to examine the Living Wage says it should stay at €11.50 per hour this year. The minimum wage is legally €9.15, but critics claim it is not enough to ensure a decent standard of life.
The Department of Health has come under pressure after it emerged the former CEO of Console was brought in for questioning five years ago regarding his stint posing as a fake doctor in the early 1980s.
WORLD
Theresa May is to be the UK's second female Prime Minister, after her only remaining rival, Andrea Leadsom, sensationally dropped out of the race to succeed David Cameron.
Military service changed suspected Dallas gunman Micah Johnson from an extrovert into a hermit , his parents have said.
SPORT
Portugal will return home with the European Championship trophy after their 1-0 result provided a fitting bookmark to a tournament that never really caught fire. Perhaps that was down to a bloated tournament in which it was harder to get eliminated in the group stage than go through, or maybe it was just down to Will Grigg’s lack of playing time. Either way there’s plenty to reflect back on as somewhere a bare-chested Cristiano Ronaldo bathes in yet more success.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship has, after weeks of rumours, been sold to WME-IMG for $4 billion. The talent and sports agency WME-IMG confirmed the deal, which equates to just over £3bn, to purchase the mixed martial arts organisation.
As John Giles completed 30 years on the RTE football panel last night, Eamon Dunphy paid an eloquent and emotional tribute to his friend and colleague’s career in football.
BUSINESS
Volkswagen has said it will repay a pair of loans from the European Investment Bank totalling €975m early as the company grapples with fallout from its diesel emissions scandal.
The most direct casualty of Brexit so far appears to be the UK’s property investment funds industry, with six funds worth over £15bn (€17.5bn) now refusing to allow savers access to their cash.
ANALYSIS
€500m a year less is being spent on universities and colleges, though there are more students, and nobody wants to foot the bill, says
LIFESTYLE
Running rings around other acts hula-hoop artist Lisa Lottie is just one of the many performers appearing at Laya Healthcare’s City Spectacular event in Cork’s Fitzgerald Park says
VIDEO
A former senior AIB employee was placed on the boards of three of Denis O’Brien’s companies after the billionaire businessman received loans from the bank, the Dáil has heard.
VIRAL
A cameraman narrowly avoided being run over by a Lamborghini during a race. The driver of the blue Aventador LP750 SuperVeloce Roadster was forced to swerve at the beginning of the race so the cameraman could get out of the way.
Clem Newell is a New Zealand born Wingsuit pilot/BASE jumper who has recently posted a video from Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland.
TECHNOW
: Pokemon Go is out, at least if you're in America, New Zealand, Australia or Japan. The rest of the world is going to have to wait while some dastardly server issues get sorted but in the meantime we can see some of the madness in this video.
: The X-Men universe is still plugging away, with Apocalypse recently exploding a lot of things in cinema and some kind of rebooted timeline set for the future. Those main movies have generally done decently at the box office but it wasn't until Deadpool that a spin off really landed with audiences, and arguably that's because it was a great antidote to the overblown blockbusters of today.
: Qualcomm's Snapdragon 821 processor is expected to debut in devices later this year and is faster than its predecessor.
SHOWBIZ
Beyonce was the talk of Ireland this week, thanks to her amazing gig in Croke Park but while she flew to Wimbledon during her time here, her team hit the clubs.
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Roy Keane was in flying form on TV last night, gleefully taking the p**s ut of former Manchester United teammate Ryan Giggs.
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