BULLETIN: Nearly 500 job losses at Bombardier in Northern Ireland; Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane leave Ireland jobs

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SPORT: Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane's five-year reign as Republic of Ireland manager is over after he agreed to step down from his role.

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IRELAND: An investigation of Scouting Ireland has found evidence of 71 alleged abusers and 108 alleged victims within the organisation.

IRELAND: The housing protest group, Take Back The City, are holding a demonstration at the offices of the Residential Tenancies Board in Dublin.

IRELAND: Two hundred people attended a public meeting in Wicklow Town last night to express their concerns about a hundred asylum seekers arriving in the town.

WORLD: Donald Trump has provided a special counsel with written answers to questions about his knowledge of Russian interference in the 2016 election, his lawyers said, avoiding, for now, a potentially risky sit-down with prosecutors.

WORLD: South Korea’s Kim Jong Yang has been elected as Interpol’s next president, edging out a veteran of Russia’s security services who was strongly opposed by the US, Britain and other European nations.

BUSINESS: Almost 500 jobs are to be lost at Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier in Northern Ireland.

BUSINESS: Cork Chamber president Bill O’Connell used his address at the organisation’s annual Dublin dinner to outline a vision of how he sees Cork in 2030 if the “once in a lifetime opportunity is grasped” for the city.

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