Minister for Health Simon Harris speaking at a Together for Yes billboard launch in Dublin, ahead of the referendum. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire If Yes, Government to pass abortion law by year end

Harris confident Oireachtas will support the law because ‘nobody has any alternative’

The vote: returning emigrants warned of 18-month rule Rome-based Aoife Cassin: “I was already aware Irish citizens living abroad had to travel home in order to vote, which I feel, like the Eighth Amendment, is also outdated.”

Irish abroad not planning to return within time frame not deemed resident

BreastCheck doctors fear legal costs may derail service Oireachtas group told of mounting concern that litigation would cost so much that BreastCheck could be obliged to stop screening service. File photograph: Getty Images

Government-funded scheme receives 15 letters from solicitors in the past two weeks

Expert: vaccination can end cervical cancer within 20 years Prof Ian Frazer, a co-creator of the HPV vaccine, says it protects against nine strains of virus which are together responsible for more than 95 per cent of cervical cancers. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

Creator of HPV vaccine hopes crisis will encourage parents immunise children

Confusion over judicial appointments branded ‘farce’ Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe: said co-operation between the Government and Sinn Féin did not mean the two parties are preparing to go into government. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Ceann Comhairle suspends Dáil debate on Bill over contradictory amendments

Brexit ‘in any form’ detrimental to Britain’s health The British Medical Journal argues that a faltering post-Brexit economy is likely to make this worse. Photograph: Reuters

Most vulnerable, including poor reliant on food banks at risk – British Medical Journal

Dig uncovers Cork houses dating back to 1070 Weaver’s sword on display at the launch of the exhibition at Cork Public Museum. Photograph: Michael O’Sullivan/OSM Photo

City as old as Waterford but Norsemen landed on Suirside earlier, says archeologist

Gardaí confident of ‘imminent’ arrest for Ana Kriegel murder 14-year-old Anastasia ‘Ana’ Kriegel

Officers focusing on evidence of young children who saw her after school on day of killing

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Gardaí issue photo of Jastine Valdez bag as search for her belongings continues

Miriam Lord: glum faces on No side amid feeling Yeses have it Taoiseach Leo Varadkar: “I want the people who are worried about this decision . . . and who will vote no in clear conscience, to know that if there is a Yes vote this weekend, Ireland will still be the same country it was before the vote. It will just be a little bit more compassionate.” Photograph: Vassil Donev

International media arrive in Dublin as photocalls and press conferences wind down

The Irish Times view on abortion: end the secrecy and the shame ‘The No side argues that politicians cannot be trusted on abortion, but that amounts to saying that we cannot trust ourselves. And that’s not good enough.’ Photograph: Artur Widak/AFP/Getty Images

The Constitution is no place for abortion. That was clear in 1983 and it is even clearer now

Fisherman drowns in Co Galway after vessel capsizes Crow Island in Kilkieran Bay. The fisherman was alone on the boat when it overturned. Photograph: Google

Body of sixty-year-old local man was discovered close to Crow Island in Kilkieran Bay

Woody Allen’s son Moses Farrow defends father over sexual assault claims Woody Allen is being condemned ‘for a crime he did not commit’, his son Moses says. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters

Film-maker’s son says sister Dylan Farrow was coerced into making accusations and details physical abuse by Mia Farrow

Shake-up at INM as Denis O’Brien’s nominee steps down and editor-in-chief resigns Stephen Rae, who is standing down from the position of editor-in-chief at Independent News & Media. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Paul Connolly departing board after nine years as director

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