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1. #HIQA: Nursing home care assistants were accused in a complaint to Hiqa of pinching residents around the waist area if they did not cooperate, according to documents released to TheJournal.ie under the Freedom of Information Act.
2. #HEATWAVE: Fire call-outs increased by 100% in parts of the country following recent dry spell.
3. #RELEASED: A Palestinian teenager who was jailed for slapping and kicking Israeli soldiers has been released.
4. #GARDA: Only five applications for a €3 million community safety scheme have been approved since it launched in 2017 following a spate of garda station closures.
5. #ETHICS: Rank-and-file members of An Garda Síochána are still refusing to sign the code of ethics written by the Policing Authority for the organisation.
6. #FIRES: Thousands of people in Southern California have fled a deliberately set blaze southeast of Los Angeles, after the state’s governor requested federal aid to help battle a deadly fire elsewhere
7.#BROWN BIN: Bord Na Móna is planning to develop a new renewable gas project that will use food waste and animal waste to create renewable gas.
8. #TOBACCO: The Courts Service of Ireland still holds about €4.5 million worth of stocks in companies that make and sell tobacco products.
9. #DUNPHY: Irish football’s love-hate relationship with Eamon Dunphy highlights a deeper generational divide.
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