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1. #BERKELEY: Flags have flown at half-mast following the deaths of six Irish students in California yesterday. J1 students directly affected have been offered free flights home, while The New York Times has come under fire for its coverage of the tragedy.

2. #REDACTED: RTÉ has published ‘almost all’ of the story it had prepared about Denis O’Brien after the High Court agreed that most of the information is in the public domain.

3. #CHANGE OF MIND: Universal health insurance could be scrapped – at least in the form previously mooted. Minister for Health Leo Varadkar said he is examining alternatives.

4. #SALE: Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams HAS said there were “serious conflicts of interest” surrounding the sale of Clerys, leading to the loss of over 400 jobs

5. #GEORGIA: A tiger that killed a man in the central square of the capital Tbilisi today has been shot dead, four days after hundreds of animals escaped from the city’s zoo after deadly floods.

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