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1. #TALLAGHT: Four of five boys charged with defilement of a 15-year-old girl at her home in Dublin have appeared in court.

2. #WEATHER: Dozens of flights are delayed out of Dublin as bad weather kicks in across the country.

3. #PERU TWO: Convicted drug smuggler Michaella McCollum has been freed from prison in Peru.

4. #SORRY: A Kildare news outlet has apologised for an April Fools’ joke which claimed a local landmark had been taken over by Isis.

5. #NO BACKING DOWN: Workplace Relations Commission head Kieran Mulvey has said he isn’t standing though after Siptu’s Jack O’Connor said he had “demonstrated his bias”  in the Luas talks.

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