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1. #SICK AND TIRED Europe’s highest court looks set to rule that Ireland has breached the European Working Time Directive in relation to junior doctors.

2. #HOODED MEN Gerard McKerr died at the age of 71.

3. #KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY Former junior minister John Perry has declined to comment on revelations that he hired his wife to a €38,000-a-year position after losing his job in the ministerial reshuffle last year.

4. #KILDARE The body found in a field in Kildare yesterday has been identified as that of 20-year-old missing man Silvestras Stoskus.

5. #THERE’S SOMETHING IN OUR EYE A four-year-old girl from Galway cut off her hair to make wigs for children suffering with cancer.

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