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• Lloyds Pharmacy stores closed as staff go on strike
  About 270 workers engaged in industrial action over union representation
• Where does rain, having fallen, actually go?
  Michael Viney: We need to tap into our groundwater resource
• Occupy Summerhill: ‘We only go to direct action when we need to’
  Activists who occupied a vacant house in Dublin city say they are not vigilantes
• Deirdre Jacob murder: how do you solve a 20-year-old crime?
  The case has been reclassified as murder amid new information, but gardaí face obstacles
• Eye on Nature: Your notes and queries for Ethna Viney
  Hummingbird hawkmoth, light knotgrass caterpillar, sea lemon and large bear hoverfly
• Church services
  Week beginning Saturday, August 18th, 2018
• Cost of National Lottery will rise from September 1st
  Lotto price is to increase for the second time since the franchise was privatised
• Geraldine Kennedy: Papal visits underline Ireland’s progress
  For many reasons we are not the same people visited by John Paul II in 1979