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1. #LIAM COSGRAVE: The former Taoiseach will be laid to rest at Goldenbridge Cemetery in Inchicore following midday mass at the Church of the Annunciation, Rathfarnham.

2. #COURTS: The brother of singer and former presidential candidate Dana Rosemary Scallon has issued legal proceedings against Independent News and Media, a journalist who worked for the company and two of his family members over historic sex abuse claims.

3. #TALLAGHT: A man who struck another man on the head with a golf club in “a moment of madness” and fractured his skull has been jailed for a year.

4. #JOBPATH: Social Protection Minister Regina Doherty has sought further details of a case in which an individual has accused a company operating the State’s jobs activation programme of fraud.

5. #ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR: Dublin City Council has written to the owners of a building on O’Connell Street following complaints of a loud, high-pitched noise bothering passers-by in the area. The high-pitched alarm was installed to ward off anti-social behaviour in the area.

6. #LAS VEGAS: Stocks in the US gun industry have risen after the mass shooting in Las Vegas in which more than 50 people were killed.

7. #HOUSING: A decision to deny permission for a major housing development in south county Dublin shows that Ireland’s planning regime is “not fit for purpose”, one analyst has said.

8. #PASSPORTS: Ireland is set to become the first country in Europe to cancel the passports of convicted paedophiles in a bid to prevent them travelling overseas to offend again, the Irish Examiner is reporting.

9. #PRESIDENT: Two-thirds of voters want Michael D Higgins to serve a second term as President, according to an Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI opinion poll.

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