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1. #FOETAL ABNORMALITIES: The Dáil will vote today on a bill allowing abortion in the case of fatal foetal abnormalities. The issue is already causing problems for Labour, with one TD saying she will vote against the government.
2. #ROCKET LAUNCHER: The Continuity IRA planned to kill the North’s Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness with a rocket launcher.
3. #DIRECT PROVISION: The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions will today visit the Mosney direct provision centre.
4. #LACK OF FORCE: The scale of gardaí leaving the force has been revealed. A Garda has left the force every day for the last five years.
5. #ROAD WILD: Footage has been emerged of a driver in Scotland using his phone, with his laptop open while wearing headphones.
6. #FAT CHANCE: Advice to cut fat from diets has been flawed all this time, new research shows.
7. #GREEN SHOOTS: Green Party leader Eamon Ryan says that his party would do a deal with Sinn Féin in the next election.
8. #TWEET TWEET: An Irish government agency made one request for Twitter to remove a posting last year, figures from the social network show.
9. #JOBSTOWN: TD Paul Murphy says that a further two people have been arrested in connection with the incident in Tallaght that saw the Tánaiste trapped in her car.
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