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EU to investigate GDP figures; Sinn Féin MLA forced to resign; City of London Brexit hopes fade

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TheIrish Times reports that Eurostat, the EU's internal statistics agency, will send a mission to Dublin in September to investigate Ireland's 26 per cent rise in GDP figures, dubbed "leprechaun economics" by Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.

— Pat Hickey was yesterday released from a Rio hospital and was taken into police custody where he was expected to give a statement in relation to charges of ticket touting at the olympics.

— Sinn Féin ...