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#BANANARAMA Irish fruit supplier Fyffes is set to be taken over by Japanese company Sumitomo in a deal worth just over €750 million.

#IRONY Leaflets and posters of Sinn Féin’s Environment Spokesman along with other party members have been found dumped in a Kildare forest.

#DOMESTIC ABUSE Domestic and sexual violence is at crisis point, according to the National Women’s Council of Ireland.

#VILE Vice President of St Vincent de Paul brands €1,500 theft from Dublin store as “vile”.

#PENGUIN PROBE Investigation launched after seven penguins discovered drowned in Canadian zoo.

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