1. #INVESTIGATION: Gardaí have confirmed they are examining how information about an ongoing criminal investigation was leaked. Amid speculation, Fianna Fáil’s director of elections, Pat Carey, stepped down from his position last night, saying he did not know if he was the minister at the centre of the investigation.
2. #EXTRADITION: Former Anglo Irish Bank boss David Drumm has been called “a clear flight risk” by a US judge as he seeks to be released on bail pending his extradition hearing.
3. #COURTS: A man who lured two young girls away from a children’s birthday party and told them he would cut their parents’ throats before raping them has moved to appeal his life sentence.
4. #GERMANY: Police say the bodies of seven babies have been found at an apartment in a Bavarian town. It is unclear when the babies died and who, if anyone, was living in the house in which they were discovered.
5. #TOP GEAR: The Irish TV producer who was attacked by Jeremy Clarkson is suing him and the BBC for racial discrimination and personal injury.
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