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Irish Government planning to ban vapes being sold to teens within months

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly will bring a memo to Cabinet on Tuesday morning asking ministers to sign off on legislation that would see the sale of vapes or e-cigarettes to teenagers banned.

Irish Mirror

Adding three new bank holidays for Ireland would cost State eye-watering sum, Simon Coveney confirms

Simon Coveney confirmed that the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the Department of Social Protection are carrying out studies that include “a fuller assessment of the impact” that introducing an additional public holiday in Ireland would have.

Irish Mirror

IDA refuses to state 'environmental and workers rights' assurances SHEIN gave before Irish opening

EXCLUSIVE: Enterprise Minister Simon Coveney said in a parliamentary question that Chinese fast-fashion company SHEIN gave the IDA 'assurances in relation to the company’s commitment to environmental sustainability'.

Irish Mirror

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Government warned price caps could backfire - leading to increased prices and reduced choice

Advice from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) warned that it would be very difficult to end price caps.

Irish Mirror

Dublin jobs: Shein opens headquarters in Dublin city centre creating multiple vacancies

Shein is looking to fill 30 positions in a range of specialist areas for their Dublin city centre by the end of the year

Dublin Live

Bill Clinton quotes Lyra McKee and urges Derry audience to 'say goodbye to bomb and bullet'

The former President was back in Derry for an event honouring John Hume and David Trimble

Belfast Live

Google to lay off 240 Irish staff as part of global job cuts

The announcement comes amid uncertainty in the tech industry with many firms announcing job cuts in recent months

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167 Defence Forces members have gone AWOL so far this year, the highest in a decade

Each of the cases are being investigated by the military police and the alleged culprits face a court martial

Irish Mirror

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar insists security concerns will not stop him visiting Northern Ireland

Some some sections of unionism and loyalism claim he was an instrumental figure in the creation of the Protocol

Belfast Live

Leo Varadkar returns as Ireland’s taoiseach in rotation agreement

Micheál Martin hands over to Fine Gael leader after two years at head of coalition government

The Guardian - UK

Leo Varadkar pays tribute to Micheal Martin in emotional speech as he becomes Taoiseach again

Mr Varadkar received 87 votes to be Taoiseach, with 62 people voting against him.

Irish Mirror

UN car hit by deadly gunfire likely strayed off main road in Lebanon’s blackouts

The vehicle is presumed to have got lost in the darkness and ended up in the small coastal town

The Independent UK

Irish soldier Sean Rooney died a hero trying to save his colleagues in Lebanon ambush

The 23-year-old was shot in the head as he drove an armoured jeep away from the crowd of attackers

Irish Mirror

Ireland minister: `The world is a crazy and tragic place'

Ireland’s foreign minister says “the world is a crazy and tragic place at the moment.”

The Independent UK

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Dublin Live

Irish soldier killed on peacekeeping duty in Lebanon named

Two armed vehicles carrying eight personnel came under small arms fire on Wednesday night while travelling to Beirut

The Independent UK

Irish peacekeeping soldier killed in Lebanon attack named

Private Sean Rooney, 23, from Newtowncunningham in Co Donegal, died when his convoy came under fire.

Dublin Live

Simon Coveney says 'shocking' death of Irish solider in Lebanon is 'worst possible news' for family

Minister Coveney described it as a "very serious" incident, and that there has not been a fatality in the Defence Forces on a peacekeeping mission for over two decades

Evening Standard

Irish UN peacekeeper killed in Lebanon after convoy attack

Another soldier was seriously injured in the incident

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Al Jazeera

Irish soldier killed in attack on UN convoy in Lebanon

The Irish soldier was serving on a peacekeeping mission when the convoy came under small arms fire.

Al Jazeera

Four people charged in EU parliament corruption investigation

Qatar, the Gulf state that is alleged to be behind the scandal, rejects any attempts to associate it with the misconduct

The Independent UK

UK quitting EU single market ‘laid foundation’ for protocol, says German minister

Responsbility to ‘implement’ Northern Ireland Protocol, says Annalena Baerbock ahead of meeting with foreign secretary James Cleverly

The Independent UK

UK exit from EU single market ‘laid foundation for protocol’ – German minister

Simon Coveney said Brexit has been ‘a process that’s gone on for too long, but as a result I think everyone knows where the landing zones are’.

Belfast Live

‘Great shame if powersharing not restored by Good Friday Agreement anniversary’

His remarks came as MLAs met during a recalled sitting of the Assembly in another doomed attempt to restore the Executive

The Independent UK

Heaton-Harris to announce timing of MLA pay cut ‘very, very soon’

Ireland’s minister for foreign affairs suggested that the pay cut would take effect in January.

The Independent UK

Russian invasion of Ukraine and veto undermines Security Council: Irish minister

Ireland has had ‘sustained and positive impact’ on conflict prevention during its two-year term on the UN group, Simon Coveney has said.

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