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1. #TEXAS: Police in the US have said Texas shooter Devin Patrick Kelley fatally shot himself after being chased from the crime scene.

2. #RAPE: A retired soldier who raped his daughter and regularly abused another daughter has been jailed for 10 years.

3. #HOUSING CRISIS: Dublin City Council has said that some of the criticism of it following last week’s RTÉ Prime Time Investigates programme is justified.

4. #PARADISE PAPERS: A huge leak of about 13.4 million secret documents has revealed on how some of the world’s richest avoid tax, including Queen Elizabeth and Bono.

5. #SEXISM: Mary Mitchell O’Connor has said that there is sexism in the Dáil, but a “revolution” is happening in all sectors.

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