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IRELAND

Special teams of police, social workers, mental health practitioners,  and community and religious leaders are needed to try and identify potential lone- wolf terrorists, according to a security expert.

A hard border involving military and customs check points in the North has been categorically ruled out  by Taoiseach Enda Kenny and British prime minister Theresa May in the wake of Brexit.

Cork Airport is the first Irish airport to launch a ‘no drone zone’  as part of a crackdown on rogue drone operators.

A lone yachtsman  has been rescued  from an overturned sailing boat off the Wexford coast.

The Patient Safety Authority should be brought in to act as a watchdog  over the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

WORLD 

One of the terrorists involved in slitting the throat of a priest in Normandy was wearing an electronic surveillance tag  at the time of the attack.

Hillary Clinton has told Democrats they have "just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling"  by nominating her for US president on a night awash with history.

SPORT

The “lavishness” of the GPA’s new funding agreement has been queried  by a former leading GAA official while another believes the official players body is “a monster” that has to be fed.

Substitute Mikhail Gordeichuk’s 70th minute strike for BATE Borisov in the Borisov Arena last night finally broke Dundalk’s resistance  to leave the League of Ireland champions with it all to do if they are to realise their Champions League dream.

BUSINESS

Northern Irish farmers will be the hardest hit by the Brexit fallout given the agriculture sector’s dependence on EU customers and the potential loss of billions of euro in grants,  according to a leading economist.

Convenience foods firm Greencore, which only this week bought out another sandwich maker in Britain, said it will likely avoid any immediate big hit  from the slump in sterling this year, though its debt load could rise in the longer term.

LIFESTYLE

Alopecia affects half of men over the age of 50 and half of woman over 65, and also affects younger people. It can have devastating repercussions on the psyche. What causes the hair loss  and what treatments are out there? Rita deBrún finds out.

ANALYSIS

A return to the dark days of the Troubles in the North, with military checkpoints and a permanent divide,  has been firmly ruled out by Irish and British leaders,  writes Juno McEnroe.

VIDEO

A new video has shown the damage done  to Vernon Mount House, which was recently gutted in a fire leaving Cork's unique architectural gem in ruin.

VIRAL

If you need some cheering up, we highly recommend this video of an Irish girl arriving home from Australia - to the shock and absolute delight of her mother.

One comedian has made a hilarious parody about people who boast when they go to the gym.

TECHNOW

GAMING: Rainbow Six Siege’s third season gets underway on August 2 with the release of Operation Skull Rain.

MOVIES/TV: The Marvel Cinematic Universe has introduced its fair share of odd and wonderful characters over the years, but the strangest is yet to come...

TECH: The OnePlus 3 made a big splash when it launched a few months back, with a single storage size at 64 gigs and a single colour option in graphite, otherwise known as a silvery/black kind of shade.

SHOWBIZ

Newlywed couple Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall have only been enjoying marital bliss for four months but they have managed to earn a place  among the top 10 celebrity power couples of 2016.

MOST READ RIGHT NOW

A fire at a Cork city restaurant was attended by Cork City Fire Brigade tlast night.  The incident happened at Elbow Lane on Oliver Plunkett Street and at least three units of the fire service were at the scene after 10pm.

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