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1. #REFERENDUM: With less than a week to go until people go to the polls on the same-sex marriage referendum, the Yes side continuing to have a commanding lead.

2. #UNRELEASED FILES: On the anniversary of the Dublin Monaghan Bombing, members of Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin have called for the British government to release files on the attack.

3. #ISIS: US Special Forces have killed a senior Islamic State group leader after a daring raid in eastern Syria last night.

4. #IRA: Three men have appeared before the Special Criminal Court after being charged with dissident republican activity and the discovery of bomb parts.

5. #MORSI: Former President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, has been sentenced to death along with more than 100 others for their part in jailbreaks during the 2011 Arab Spring uprising.

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