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1. #ORANMORE: A person has been arrested after a garda was stabbed during an incident in Galway this afternoon.

2. #ON MUTE: Twelve of 15 mobile phones belonging to senior garda officers are missing and cannot be provided to the Disclosures Tribunal.

3. #NO, MINISTER: Galway East TD Sean Canney announced that he’s leaving the Independent Alliance after reports that he and Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran had a fight about a ministerial role.

3. #RIP: The funeral of mother-of-three Natalia Karaczyn has taken place in Sligo Cathedral this morning.

5. #EMERGENCY: A mandatory evacuation order remained in effect in part of Hawaii after the Kilauea volcano erupted, spitting red-hot lava out of ground fissures.

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