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1. #HOUSING CRISIS The average national rent now stands at almost €1,100 per month, according to a quarterly report from the Residential Tenancies Board.

2. #ABORTION Minister for Health Simon Harris will publish the text of the abortion legislation in coming days and introduce it in the Dáil next week.

3. #AIRBUSTED A man has been arrested at Dublin Airport this morning, after he ran on to the tarmac near Terminal One because he missed his flight.

4. #LAOIS Gardaí are investigating an incident in which a man was allegedly seen masturbating outside a school in Portlaoise.

5. #PROPERTY The Banking and Payments Federation Ireland reports that over 4,000 mortgages with a collective value of €931 million were approved in Ireland in August.

6. #BANKS Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has said bankers’ pay is “worth reviewing” due to the problem State-owned financial institutions are having in retaining staff.

7. #SALISBURY One of the suspects in the nerve agent poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in Britain is a colonel in Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, it has emerged.

8. #USA Donald Trump says United Nations diplomats were laughing with him, not at him, when he boasted about his government’s successes at the UN this week.

9. #WEATHER It’ll be cloudy across the country today, but warm conditions will persist with highest temperatures ranging between 14 and 19 degrees Celsius.