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1. #WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE: Water service has returned to Louth and Meath after a “complex” repair on a burst water main.

2. #CORBETT TRIAL: The Jason Corbett trial has heard that he had only a low level of a sleeping pill present in his bloodstream at the time of his death.

3. #DUN LAOGHAIRE: A man in his 80s has been hospitalised after being hit by a bus in Dun Laoghaire.

4. #BRAY WANDERERS: The chairman of Bray Wanderers FC has released a statement calling Wicklow the “North Korea of Ireland” in a bizarre statement on the club’s future.

5. #TRANSGENDER BAN: Hundreds have marched in New York over US President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops in the military.

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