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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know to start the day.
1. Around one in five children in Ireland are missing more than four weeks of school per year and it’s been warned the situation “shows little sign of improving”.
2. Gardaí have arrested a man they believe to be the leader of an organised crime group.
3. A teenage girl has died after being struck by a scrambler motorbike in Dublin.
4. At least ten people have died in the US as the country continues to be battered by a massive winter storm.
5. Social media companies are up in court in California, in a landmark case in which they are accused of deliberately addicting children to their platforms.
6. Clothes made from recycled polyester release more microplastics into the environment than regular polyester garments, according to new testing.
7. Protests against the presence of immigration agents in Minnesota continued yesterday in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti.
8. Despite a decade of glossy strategies, Vision Zero pronouncements, “thoughts and prayers” from politicians, our roads are becoming visibly more dangerous, writes Sadhbh O’Neill.
9. Former president Mary Robinson has said that elements of fascism are clearly present in the US government led by President Donald Trump.
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