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1. #STORM ATIYAH: Motorists are being urged to take extra caution this morning after Storm Atiyah made landfall in Ireland last night.
2. #NEW ZEALAND: Five people have died and more fatalities are likely after a volcano erupted on a small New Zealand island.
3. #LONGFORD: There has been a “significant reduction” in Longford feud violence after gardaí threatened to arrest men posting ‘call out’ videos on social media.
4. #DONALD TRUMP: The US President has warned that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un had “everything” to lose through hostility towards the United States, after Pyongyang said it had carried out a major new weapons test.
5. #REDRESS SCHEME: The Christian Brothers has completed is contribution to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund, the Department of Education has confirmed.
6. #HOMELESSNESS: The CEO of Dublin’s oldest homeless charity, the Mendicity Institute, has claimed the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive’s Cold Weather Strategy “falls short” of providing sufficient support for day services.
7. #FLORIDA: The FBI is working under the presumption that a fatal shooting at a Florida naval base carried out by an aviation student from Saudi Arabia was an act of terrorism.
8. #INTEGRITY INDEX: Two local authorities in Dublin have ranked the highest when it comes to behaving in a transparent manner, according to a new report.
9. #IFA: Members of the Irish Farmers’ Association are staging a protest outside a Tesco distribution centre in north Dublin this morning.
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