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IRELAND
INTERNATIONAL
#NORWAY The son of Norway’s future queen today admitted a life of excess, blaming it on an “extreme need for recognition”, but denied raping a woman at his parents’ royal estate in 2018.
#EPSTEIN FILES Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein asked an exotic dancer for a threesome at the late paedophile’s Florida home, legal letters claim.
#LIBYA Libyan prosecutors are investigating the killing of Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of slain ruler Muammar Gaddafi, in the city of Zintan.
PARTING SHOT (literally)
It was a whistlestop tour for President Catherine Connolly today around Belfast City as she paid her first official visit to Northern Ireland since taking up office in November.
After her meeting with the Stormont leaders, Connolly visited Queen’s University, where she met with basketball players from the cross-community charity PeacePlayers.
While there, she once again showed off her sporting skills, scoring not one but two hoops (one of which was done while facing backwards).