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1. #LAND OF POPE AND GOREY: The Pope has dropped a massive hint that he will visit Ireland in 2018. A major Catholic summit will be held in Dublin.

2. #CRASH: Two children were hospitalised after a car being tailed by gardaí collided with their family car.

3. #KAREN BUCKLEY: Alexander Pacteau had hinted to friends about his violent intentions, a new TV3 documentary about Karen Buckley says.

4. #INDIAN SUMMER: The weather looks set to be fine for the week. Hooray.

5. #BLOOD DONORS: Equality Minister Aodhán Ó Ríordán has called for an end to the ban on gay men donating blood, the Irish Examiner reports.

6. #HOWTH: A man is in a serious condition after falling from rocks while fishing in Howth yesterday.

7. #DAVID CAMERON: The British Prime Minister says he won’t be suing the former friend whose book made allegations about him putting a “private part” in a dead pig’s mouth. He told the Mail he is “too busy” running the country”.

8. #EMPTY HOMES: Fianna Fáil’s Barry Cowen has said a “shocking” number of council houses are empty. Figures obtained by Cowen show there are 2,600 such homes.

9. #COLD WAR KIDS: The Presidents of Russia and America come face to face today, with Syria and Isis set to be on the agenda.