MORNING BULLETIN: Special unit to be established for most violent inmates

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IRELAND: A special prison unit is being set up to house the country’s most violent prisoners after official figures showed a fivefold increase in assaults by inmates on staff at Dóchas Women’s Prison last year.

IRELAND: A soup kitchen charity has called for an increase in the national minimum wage after seeing people with jobs turning to it for help.

IRELAND: A soccer player with cross-channel ambitions is suing his former club for post-traumatic stress disorder for being excluded from a team as a 13 to 14-year-old.

BUSINESS: Donald Trump has moved to lure the $2.6tn (€2.4tn) US companies hold offshore. And his plan to move to a so-called “territorial system” for US overseas earnings may yet have implications for Ireland.

WORLD: North Korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons is an urgent national security threat and the US will exert pressure through diplomatic measures and tighter economic sanctions, the Trump administration has said.

ANALYSIS: Some 7.6 million voters have now acknowledged Le Pen as the right person to lead France, writes Christine Ockrent.

SPORT: A Special Congress to alter the format of the All-Ireland senior hurling championship in time for next year is strongly mooted to take place this October.

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FEATURES: Coffee shops are about much more than the product they serve.

ARTS: Dennis Dinneen’s pictures of people in Muskerry are at last being regarded as an invaluable archive.

VIRAL: Staff member spontaneously sits down at a piano in Cork Airport and what happens next is amazing.