LUNCHTIME BULLETIN: Elisha Gault's mother thanks public; Judicial Appointments Bill 'in a difficult place'

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LUNCHTIME BULLETIN: Elisha Gault's mother thanks public; Judicial Appointments Bill 'in a difficult place'

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IRELAND: The mother of Elisha Gault has today thanked the public for their efforts in the search for her 14-year-old daughter.

IRELAND: Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan has today admitted that the Judicial Appointments Bill is "in a difficult place".

IRELAND: An extra €5 is being added to social welfare payments from this week.

BUSINESS: The long-mooted Northern Ring Road to unlock the economic potential of Cork city’s northside is more crucial than the proposed €850m M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick, a planning expert has said.

WORLD: A fire at a shopping mall packed with children and their parents on the first weekend of the school holidays has killed 64 people in eastern Russia.

WORLD: A doctored image of Emma Gonzalez ripping up US constitution has caused outrage online.

SPORT: Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes team will launch an investigation into the computer glitch which denied their star driver the perfect start to his defence of the Formula One World Championship.

... SOME DISTRACTION

FEATURES: Raped on a trip to Belfast by a 15-year-old, the vicious attack inspired Winnie M Li’s widely acclaimed novel.

SHOWBIZ: Stephen Fry has said he sometimes feels he is in danger of becoming “professionally mentally unstable”.

VIRAL: Nick Knowles and the DIY SOS team have embarked on one of their “morally most important projects” to date – rebuilding a community space destroyed by the Grenfell Tower fire.

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