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1. #DATA SEIZED: The Swiss authorities have opened criminal proceedings against Fifa president Sepp Blatter “on suspicion of criminal mismanagement as well as – alternatively – on suspicion of misappropriation”.

2. #MURPHY’S LAW: European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy has been heavily criticised after it emerged he got two gardaí in Cork to drive him over 200 kilometres to Dublin for an early-morning flight.

3. #VISHING: Gardaí are warning about a new phone scam after three people transferred €50,000 after getting phone calls.

4. #INTERNAL AFFAIRS: A Sinn Féin councillor in Cork has resigned from the party in the wake of the controversy over bullying in the Cork East constituency organisation.

5. #HISTORY CLASS: A Virginia teacher has been suspended for using a racist word while discussing discriminatory and derogatory terms with her history class.

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