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1. #ONE HORSE RACE: Leo Varadkar hasn’t even officially announced his Fine Gael leadership candidacy yet, and he’s already 21 votes ahead of rival Simon Coveney.
2. #PROTECTED DISCLOSURE: Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny has criticised the Minister for Justice for taking six months to respond to allegations that gardaí entrapped people through informants.
3. #IN HIDING: A Waterford moneylending gang is ‘in hiding’ as it owes money to Nigerian drug dealers.
4. #’BOXER’ MORAN: Westmeath TD Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran has spoken out about his struggles with illiteracy and depression.
5. #AFGHANISTAN: A horror roadside bomb attack has killed 11 members of the same family.
6. #TUAM BABIES: Decisions are to be made over what is to happen with the exhumation of remains at the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam.
7. #TIGER KIDNAPPING: Gardaí are investigating the circumstances that saw a jury discharged in a €600,000 tiger kidnapping case.
8. #PLAGUE: Ireland has one of the largest populations of white-clawed crayfish, but a plague is killing them all.
9. #ARDNACRUSHA: You can now go on a tour of Ireland’s largest hydroelectric dam.
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