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1. #THE DISAPPEARED: A specialist dog has been brought to Meath bogland as the search for Joe Lynskey, one of the Disappeared, intensifies. He went missing during the summer of 1972.

2. #PROPERTY TAX: The Minister for Finance is considering linking property tax to the consumer price index, meaning home owners do not face massive hikes in the tax as the value of their home rises, The Irish Times reports.

3. #PRESENTS: Thousands of people will head online today for Cyber Monday, but retailers in Ireland are expecting their best Christmas for five years. Retail Ireland believes close to €4 billion will be spent.

4. #IRISH WATER: New figures obtained by The Irish Times have revealed the utility’s spend on legal fees – €81,000 per week, and a total of €4.9 million since it was established.

5. EXPERIMENT: A previously unknown vaccine trial was carried out on 30 children in Ireland during the 1960s, the Irish Examiner reports. Only four trials were previously made public.

6. #AUSTRALIA: Police have urged the mother of a baby found dead and buried in the sand at a popular Sydney beach to come forward.

7. #OVERCROWDING: New data shows that Ireland’s prison service is close to reaching its maximum capacity, with some prisons already over-capacity. Three are at more than 100% capacity.

8. #TEACHERS STRIKE: Writing in today’s Irish Independent, Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has said that compromises “on both sides” are needed in discussions with teachers over Junior Cert reforms. “The ball is in the union’s court,” she writes.

9. #GEANSAÍ NOLLAIG: A world record for the most people wearing Christmas jumpers in one place was set last night in Dublin. A total of 1,297 people flocked to O’Connell Street in the best festive attire.