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1. #COURTS: Boxing trainer Pete Taylor has initiated legal proceedings against the Garda Commissioner and a number of news publications and journalists.
2. #D-DAY: World leaders will attend ceremonies on the beaches of Normandy, where 75 years ago Allied troops landed to push Nazi forces out of France during World War II.
3. #STICK THAT IN YOUR PIPE: A carbon tax could reduce emissions by up to 10% and reduce income inequality despite concerns poorer families would be worst hit by a tax, ESRI research has claimed.
4. #FOUL: The Football Association of Ireland’s computer servers were the subject ‘of external hacking’ last weekend, it has emerged.
5. #MERGING TRAFFIC: Italian-American car manufacturer Fiat Chrysler has withdrawn a proposal for a merger with Renault, blaming the French government.
6. #PIG EBOLA: Millions of pigs have been culled in China and Vietnam to contain the spread of highly-contagious African swine fever.
7. #COMPENSATION: A distribution company has been ordered to pay €22,419 to a truck driver who claims he was unfairly dismissed following an oil spill incident.
8. #HIGH STANDARDS: Japan’s health and labour minister has defended workplaces that require women to wear high heels to work, arguing it is “necessary and appropriate”.
9. #SLÁINTE: Donald Trump’s sons pulled pints of Guinness and visited four pubs in Doonbeg last night, saying that the support for their father far-outweighed the protests.
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