WHAT’S THE STORY?

1. A shocking Prime Time investigation to air tonight shows elderly women being hit, kicked and dragged across the floor at a care home.

2. Sinead O’Connor is joining Sinn Féin.

3. Gardaí are hiring a JobBridge intern to work as a Human Rights Assistant.

4. Locals in a town in Wicklow are banding together to stop a new McDonald’s being opened.

5. Tie down your wheelie bins - there are gale force winds in a number of counties across Ireland.

6. A motion of no confidence in the Taoiseach will be debated in the Dáil later today but do you have confidence in him?

Main pic: A photographer takes a picture of the sun rise over Cambridge city centre this morning, taken by Christ Radburn/PA.

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