BULLETIN: Opposition 'bang out of order' over forced resignations; Trump says climate change not a hoax, but denies lasting impact
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: Opposition calls that forced the resignations of former tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and ex-Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan were “bang out of order,” says Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
: President Michael D Higgins has made a strong attack on Catholic Church actions in the recent scandals.
: A man in his 30s has been injured after a shooting in west Dublin.
: Supporters of a Cork aid volunteer, held in a Greek jail over allegations of helping illegal migrants enter Greece, are to hold demonstrations in five cities next Saturday to call for his release.
: US president Donald Trump has backed off his claim that climate change is a hoax but said he does not know if it is manmade.
: We criticise Donald Trump’s separation of migrant children from their parents at the Mexico-US border, yet 4,300 asylum-seekers languish in inhumane direct provision here, and with families split by deportation, says
: No complaints, said a member of the Midleton backroom as he and his colleagues walked into the Páirc Uí Chaoimh tunnel yesterday, and a Cork senior hurling county final has rarely been summed up as succinctly.
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: Katie Piper is the third celebrity to be eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing – despite Seann Walsh being the bookies’ favourite to leave this weekend.
: Here are the many stages of hell every woman’s been through wearing high heels on a night out…
: Louis de Paor and Greg Delanty will be among the readers at an event tonight in memory of Liam Ó Muirthile who passed away in May.
