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Your top stories on Wednesday: Asylum seekers moved from Mount Street; Irish firm warns on EU ban on smoky flavourings for ham and crisps

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Tralee-based Kerry Group claims the changes will impact well over €30 billion worth of food products across the EU.
Tralee-based Kerry Group claims the changes will impact well over €30 billion worth of food products across the EU.

Asylum seekers being moved from tents on Dublin’s Mount Street

Asylum seekers are being moved from tents at the International Protection Office on Mount Street in Dublin’s city centre on this morning amid a heavy Garda presence.

There are more than 200 tents in the streets and laneways surrounding the office, all occupied by male asylum seekers.

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Against La Rochelle in the quarter-final Leinster's Jordan Larmour reminded us how dangerous he can be with sublime running and subtle distribution. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho
Against La Rochelle in the quarter-final Leinster's Jordan Larmour reminded us how dangerous he can be with sublime running and subtle distribution. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho

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  • Paul Auster, author and literary star from Brooklyn, dies at 77: Paul Auster, a prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and who endured to become one of the signature New York writers of his generation, died of complications from lung cancer at his home in Brooklyn on Tuesday evening.

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