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1. #ANA HICK The fune

ral of teenager Ana Hick took place in Dublin today. Her mother said her daughter “lit up everyone’s lives”.

2. #PHOENIX PARK A homeless man was sentenced to life in prison for killing a man in the park in 2013.

3. #IRISH VISIT Prince Charles described his murdered great-uncle, Lord Mountbatten, as “the grandfather I never had”.

4. #HIGH COURT Alan Shatter lost his bid to quash some aspects of the Guerin report.

5. #REFERENDUM The mural on same-sex marriage by Irish artist Joe Caslin has appeared on the front page of the international edition of the New York Times.

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