Health services across the country will experience major disruption again this morning, as 37,000 nurses and midwives stage a second day of strike action.
A Government offer of talks has been roundly rejected by their union, the INMO, as the discussions would not address their pay claims.
Up to 50,000 people will be affected by the action - with all outpatient appointments, surgeries and routine community nursing activities cancelled.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Northern Ireland today.
She will seek to calm fears about the return of a hard border during her visit.
She is expected to give a speech on Brexit and meet with business leaders.
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In France, a fire in central Paris has killed at least seven people and left 28 injured.
200 firefighters are trying to put out the flames at a residential building around two miles south-west of the Eiffel Tower.
The eight-story block has been evacuated.
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Some 79% of eight-year-olds own a smart device and almost half are already using social media and messaging apps.
That is according to Cyber Safe Ireland on Safer Internet Day 2019.
It aims to highlight the importance of using the internet responsibly.
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Liam Neeson is facing a backlash, after he admitted he once hoped to carry out a racially motivated revenge killing.
The Oscar winning Northern Irish actor said he wanted to attack and kill a black man, after a female friend told him she had been raped by a person of colour.
He said his reaction was to roam the streets armed with a club, seeking a confrontation with a black person.
