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1. #VIOLATION: North Korea has successfully launched a long range rocket into space.
2. #COMPLAINT: RTÉ has stated that it will make a formal complaint after one of its cameramen was injured during a protest on O’Connell Street yesterday.
3. #GANGLAND: Gardaí say they are making progress in identifying some of the gang members involved in the Dublin hotel shooting that left one man dead and two others seriously injured.
4. #POSTERS: TheJournal.ie asked all parties in the general election what their poster budget amounted to – here’s what we found out.
5. #FACT CHECK: Did Enda Kenny really call Michael Lowry ‘a man of the highest integrity’? We’re testing the truth of claims made by candidates and parties on the campaign trail.
6. #ZIKA VIRUS: Photographer Felipe Dana spent time with Solange Ferreira and her baby boy Jose in Brazil and has now described the experience.
7. #FLOCK: Here’s how many apprentices have been working in each trade since 2010.
8. #FACE VALUE: Women can see when other women are at their most fertile by just looking at their face.
9. #TESCOS TESCOS: This Dublin taxi driver belted out a jingle when he heard his passenger worked in advertising
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