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1. #KILKEE: Tributes are being paid to the Coast Guard crew member Caitriona Lucas, who died yesterday while searching for a missing man with two of her colleagues.
2. #FACEBOOK: A High Court judge has rejected Facebook’s attempt to stop legal proceedings relating to a 14-year-old girl who allegedly was the victim of ‘revenge porn’ on the social media site.
3. #SERIOUS FAULTS: The Garda Síochána Ombudsman’s Commission says there were serious faults in the investigation into allegations of rape made by two children.
4.#COLD CASE: Gardaí are to begin digging at a site in Waterville, Co Kerry today as part of the search for a man who has been missing for more than 25 years.
5. #CULTURE NIGHT STRIKE: There are no talks scheduled between Dublin Bus drivers and management ahead of two more days of strike action this week which will see hundreds of thousands of commuters disrupted, and will put a dampener on the city’s annual Culture Night event.
6. JAMES BROCKENSHIRE: The new Northern Ireland Secretary will pay his first official visit to Dublin today, where he will sign an international treaty to end paramilitary activity in the North.
7. #NO WATER: The Anti-Austerity Alliance have submitted their pre-budget submission, requesting the abolition of water charges and a referendum on the ownership of the public water system.
8. #THINK-IN: Fine Gael continues deliberations in Newbridge over what went wrong for their politicians in the last election, and discuss unofficial claims of a reshuffle.
9. #OVERHEATED: Hillary Clinton’s staff have apologised for being too slow to admit that the presidential nominee had been diagnosed with pneumonia after she fell ill at the weekend.
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