Technology, Tallaght -, is announced. 18 July – The Cabinet held a meeting at Derrynane House, County Kerry where they discussed Brexit contingency plans. 20 July Ryanair was forced to cancel 24 flights as the airline's Irish-based pilots conducted their second 24-hour strike. The High Court refused permission to two people seeking to challenge the abortion referendum result. 22 July – A number of flights at Cork Airport were cancelled after the nose wheel of a private jet burst on the runway. 23 July – Independent Senator Gerard Craughwell announced that he will not be contesting the Presidential Election in the autumn. 25 July – On the third day of strike action by its pilots, Ryanair announced the possibility of further job cuts on top of the possible 300 announced on Wednesday. 26 July Thirty-one homes around the country were searched by Gardaí as part of an investigation into the possession and distribution of child abuse images. MMA fighter Conor McGregor was sentenced to five days community service and is to undergo an anger management programme as part of a plea deal. 27 July – Irish Water confirmed that the countrywide hosepipe ban introduced earlier this month will remain in place until the end of August. 30 July – The Minister for Finance agreed to pay Aidan Flanagan - a Garda and former Tipperary hurling captain - €1.16m for injuries he suffered when making an arrest. 31 July – A dispute over a €3.3m winning Lotto ticket was resolved when the Court of Appeal ruled that Mary Walsh must pay €560,000 to her stepson David Walsh plus his legal costs after finding her stepson was part owner of and entitled to a one-sixth share of the winning ticket. August 1 August Cork's English Market, one of the oldest municipal markets of its kind in the world, celebrated its 230th birthday. Organisers of the Papal visit delayed issuing tickets over concerns about the number of people travelling to the event by car. 2 August – An Post stated that up to 161 post offices might close after they confirmed the same number of postmasters applied for the company's voluntary retirement package. 3 August – A post-mortem examination was to take place following the death of a transgender woman living in the male wing of a Direct Provision Centre in Galway. 4 August The family of an Irishman who disappeared in 1985