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5. #SHOOTING: An investigation is ongoing after the shooting dead of the brother of well-known dissident republican Alan Ryan.

6. #CASH PILE: Today’s Irish Daily Mail reports that Labour’s Eamon Gilmore, Ruairi Quinn and Pat Rabbitte will walk away from the Dáil with €450,000 in cash and pensions of €79,000 a year.

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