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1. #THREAT: The Belgian government’s crisis group is due to meet later today to decide whether to keep the terror threat alert in Brussels at the highest level.
2. #BOMB: A Turkish Airlines plane en route from New York to Istanbul has been diverted to Canada because of a bomb threat.
3. #PARIS: The lead singer of Eagles of Death Metal has spoken out about the attacks for the first time saying ‘so many were killed because they wouldn’t leave their friends’.
4. #INVESTIGATION: Gardaí are investigating after the body of a woman in her 80s was found in her home in Wexford on Friday night.
5. #ATTACK: CCTV footage from Mountjoy Prison shows a prison officer being violently assaulted by prisoners with a brush handle.
6. #ROADSIDE: This device is what gardaí will use to test individuals suspected of drug driving.
7. #EGYYPIAN GODDESS: A bookshop in Colorado has repeatedly been vandalised because of its name: Isis.
8. #TIS THE SEASON: Christmas trees are going to make Ireland €21m this year.
9. #HAPPY MEAL: McDonald’s staff threw a birthday party for a 93-year-old man who visits every day
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