1. #FIRE A ‘significant’ number of people have lost their lives in an enormous fire in Carrickmines, south Dublin.
2. #BUDGET It’s being reported in a number of places that the government is set to increase spending in next week’s budget by €1.5 billion in an effort to woo voters.
3. #WEATHER There will be drizzly rain in places this morning, which should clear leaving an otherwise dry day with some hazy sunshine. Highest temperatures of 14 to 16 degrees.
4. #ISRAEL Tensions are heightened near Gaza once more with at least six Palestinians killed in Israeli reprisals to a number of stabbings last week.
5. #NORTH KOREA The reclusive state has been holding an enormous parade in the capital Pyongyang to celebrate 70 years of the ruling Workers’ Party.
6. #ÁRAS ATTRACTA RTE reports that a judge has ruled that covert video evidence is admissible in the trials of six people charged with abuse in a Co Mayo care home.
7. #COURTS A judge has branded a man who kissed a teenager without consent a “nuisance to society”.
8. #IRISH WATER There have been 188 arrests at Irish Water protests in the last year
9. #BOX LIKE HELL Roscommon-South Leitrim TD Michael Fitzmaurice has described what he’s learned in his first year in Dáil Éireann.
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