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1. #ON AGAIN: Dubliners are being promised a 14-stop Metro North link to the airport.

2. #SIGNED UP: Exactly 422,455 households have not registered with Irish Water

3. #THE DISAPPEARED: Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams will not face prosecution in connection with the murder of Jean McConville.

4. #PRIVATE: Confidential records of 44 orthopaedic patient were found “strewn across the street” near Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

5. #COURTS: A 90-year-old woman says that she’s “very annoyed” after being fined €1,500 for having a satellite dish on her house.

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