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1. #BRACE YOURSELVES: Met Éireann has issued the highest level of weather warning, with torrential rain expected overnight.

2. #MIGRANT CRISIS: European member states were today discussing whether to extend internal border checks for up to two years in the passport-free Schengen zone.

3. #PEARSE MCAULEY: Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou MacDonald has criticised the length of the sentence handed down to a former IRA man who attacked his ex-wife.

4. #TERRORISM: One of the two suspected in the mass shooting in California had posted on Facebook pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group.

5. #GOLDEN TICKET: Tickets for Adele’s shows in Dublin sold out in three minutes today. Three. Minutes. Hello…?

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