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1. #ON THE RUN: The third suspected Brussels attacker is on the run and is believed to have left the ‘biggest bomb’ at the airport.

2. #MAKE CONTACT: Taoiseach Enda Kenny is being urged to pick up the phone to Fianna Fáil by a grouping of independent rural TDs.

3. #CRASH: A woman in Donegal is in serious condition after a road collision earlier this morning.

4. #SWEEPING IN: Fingal County Council has confirmed that it is trying to buy the houses caught up in the vulture fund controversy in Tyrrelstown.

5. #CARE: A mother whose children are in State care has been allowed to visit them for only four hours a year, the High Court has heard.

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