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1. #DEMENTIA: A new study has found that dementia is more common in people who live within 50 metres of a major road than those who live further away.

2. #TROLLEY CRISIS: Health Minister Simon Harris is due to meet HSE chiefs over the hospital trolley crisis later today.

3. #OBAMACARE: Battle lines have been drawn between Republicans and Democrats over plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act in the US.

4. #ARREST: A woman has been arrested in relation to a stabbing of a woman in Drumcondra earlier this week.

5. #PASSPORTS: The Department of Foreign Affairs issued 733,060 passports last year.

6. #APPEAL: A renewed appeal has been issued over the death of a 42-year-old father-of-five who was shot and killed by a group of masked men in January 2015.

7. #FACEBOOK: Four men have been arrested in Chicago in relation to an alleged assault that was streamed over Facebook Live.

8. #EXCHEQUER: Finance Minister Michael Noonan has hailed new exchequer returns as a “historic high” for the country.

9. #RIOT: Mass killings during a prison riot in Brazil were orchestrated to allow gang leaders to escape, according to Brazil’s Justice Minister.