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People were leaping from the Forty Foot into the sea in Dublin today, as Met Éireann said Ireland could break its record temperature for a single day in May in the coming days. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• A teenage girl died in the water off Burrow Beach in Sutton, Co Dublin on Sunday. 
• Diesel has been leaking into the River Liffey from an underground pipe connection near the Samuel Beckett Bridge for over a year.
• Gardaí investigating the disappearance and murder of Kyran Durnin have today arrested a woman in her 50s. 
• A vigil has taken place for Alex Coughlan, who died after an assault in Blanchardstown in Dublin.
• Gangland figure Gerry Hutch has broken his silence following the Dublin Central byelection, saying he has “no regrets” and hinting at a future run for elected office.
• Gardaí contacted UK broadcaster Channel 4 over a social media post at the weekend which implied that the force was responsible for the death of Yves Sakila.
• The warm weather is expected to continue across much of the country through midweek, bringing long spells of sunshine and unusually high temperatures for late May.
• Ireland will end its involvement with a European anti-arms smuggling naval mission in the Mediterranean because of an Irish government block on participation in missions without a UN Security Council mandate.

INTERNATIONAL

Leidy Solis, of Colombia, celebrates after competing in the women's clean and jerk weightlifting final at the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas Alamy Alamy

#NEW RULE: Pope Leo XIV will today launch a papal encyclical on Artificial Intelligence alongside the co-founder of the leading AI company Anthropic.

#IRAN WAR: US secretary of state Marco Rubio said a deal to end the war with Iran could materialise today, as President Donald Trump tempered expectations.

#UK POLITICS: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accused Elon Musk of helping Labour by backing a rival right-wing party in a closely watched UK byelection battle.

PARTING SHOT

Microeledone galapagensis Charles Darwin Foundation Charles Darwin Foundation

A tiny blue octopus that could curl up and fit in the palm of your hand has been confirmed as a new deep-sea species.  

The new species, Microeledone galapagensis, has been announced in a paper in the journal Zootaxa.

The octopus was first spotted in 2015 during a deep-sea expedition of the Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador.