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The Joint Committee on the 8th Amendment is holding its first public meeting this afternoon.
Ms. Justice Mary Laffoy, Chairperson of the Citizens' Assembly, is making a presentation to the body on the assembly's findings.
Gardai at Leixlip have launched a triple murder inquiry.
New information has come to light on a fire in which 20 year old Barbara Doyle and her two young nieces died in a fire in Kilcock on this day in 1987.
Stephanie Grogan reports.
Two sailors have been rescued from a capsized dinghy in Dublin Bay this morning.
It happened shortly before 9am off the West Pier at Dun Laoghaire.
Two walkers on the pier saw the incident and raised the alarm.
A neighbour climbed a ladder and cut through iron bars to help rescue a family from a fire in Dublin.
A woman in her 30s and her eight year old son are critical following the blaze in Inchicore on Monday night.
The Minister for Rural and Community Development says there doesn't need to be a Minister for Brexit, after farmers called for Leo Varadkar to appoint one.
Michael Ring's comments come on the second day of the National Ploughing Championships;
Sean Defoe reports.
Gardai are hunting a gang who robbed from an arcade in Kildare Town.
They entered Ace Arcade on the Dublin Road at around 12.45am on Tuesday morning.
They threatened a member of staff with a knife and a lump hamper.
Legendary sports broadcaster and journalist Jimmy Magee has passed away aged 82.
He was born in New York city and raised in Cooley, Co Louth.
Known as the memory man, he commentated on 11 Olympic Games and 12 World Cups.
In Kfm traffic and travel news,
A vehicle is reported to be on fire on the M7.
Transport Infrastructure Ireland says it is at the Kildare exit, southbound,
Gardai are to hold a briefing today on a fatal fire which happened in Kilcock in 1987.
20 year old Barbara Doyle, 3 year old Kerrie Ann Byrne and Mary Ellen Byrne, who was 8, died in the blaze at a home at Church Lane on September 20th of that year.
A man has been killed in a crash on the N81 near Blessington.
Gardai say the 49 year old man was the rider of a motorbike, which was in collision with a car at around 8.40pm last night.
The second major storm to hit the Caribbean this month - Hurricane Maria - has battered the island of Dominica.
The category five storm is now heading for Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands with winds of up to 260 kilometres per hour.
Donald Trump has issued a stark warning to North Korea during his first big speech to the United Nations.
The US president described the Pyongyang regime as a "band of criminals" whose reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles threatens the entire world.
The criminal investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire in London may consider individual as well as corporate manslaughter charges.
Detectives have also revealed they're looking into eight cases of fraud, involving people who claimed money following June's disaster.
Allocations of a total of €37,500 have been made by Kildare County Council under the
Creative Ireland Bursary Award.
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