1. #NURSES NEEDED: Irish hospitals are spending hundreds of thousands on overseas recruitment drives while hundreds of qualified nurses from the US are being turned away.
2. #CRASH: A man was killed when the car he was driving crashed into a wall in Co Louth early this morning.
3. #CATALAN CRISIS: Pro-unity protesters are to gather in Barcelona today after the region’s government declared it independent from Spain.
4. #INVESTIGATION: Gsoc is investigating the suicide of a man who was due to give evidence in a trial linked to the Hutch-Kinahan feud, The Sunday Times reports.
5. #EDITORS: The founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales tells TheJournal.ie that the website’s overwhelming male ratio needs to be fixed.
6. #KEEP ON RUNNING: The Dublin Marathon is getting underway in the capital about now, leading to some traffic restrictions.
7. #TRACKER SCANDAL: Customers who’ve suffered years of overcharging from banks have spoken about the psychological wounds left by years of financial distress.
8. #NOT FORGOTTEN: An event will be held later today in Cork to remember the 600 trees that were ‘lost’ Storm Ophelia.
9. #GO KATIE: Irish boxer Katie Taylor won her first professional world boxing title in Cardiff last night.
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