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1. # DEBT: The staggering scale of Ireland’s debt has been revealed; the country owes the European Central Bank €260bn, The Irish Mail on Sunday reports. Recently released figures show that the ECB is lending to banks, cashing in Nama bonds, depositing cash in Irish banks, and buying Irish government bonds.

2. # YEMEN BOMB: Two women have been arrested by police in Yemen, after two parcels containing explosive material were found on two separate cargo planes destined for the United States. The parcels were addressed to synagogues in Chicago, RTÉ reports.

3. # COVER UP? A chairman of an official inquiry into the death of a child who had endured similar circumstances as the siblings in the Roscommon abuse case has accused senior officials in the health service of trying to suppress his report, The Sunday Times reports. Owen Keenan published a report on the death of Kelly Fitzgerald in 1993. He said: “I wonder if I had spoken out then, might it have made a difference to what happened in Roscommon?”

4. # LOUTH MURDER: Gardaí have released a man being questioned in relation to a murder in Louth on Friday without charge. The victim was a Dublin man in his 20s, who was fatally injured at a house in the Sliabh Breagh estate in Ardee, RTÉ reports.

5. # FISHERMEN: Two fishermen have been rescued off the north Mayo coast, RTÉ reports. The men were found in a life raft 13 miles north west of Downpatrick Head at around 1am, after their 36-ft fishing vessel sank yesterday afternoon.

6. # NAVAN: More than 10,000 people gathered to protest cuts in services to Our Lady’s Hospital in Navan, Co Meath on Saturday. Protesters condemned to proposals, saying that patients will be forced to travel outside the county either to Louth or Dublin for serious care.

7. # IMF KNOCKING: Economist Colm McCarthy has warned that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) could be running Ireland by February if the Budget “fails to convince the financial markets”, the Sunday Independent reports.

8. # CORK: Two people have died and three have been hospitalised in a multi-car accident in Co Cork. The crash occurred on the main road from Cork city and Carrigaline, when three cars collided. There have been other serious incidents at the same spot. Yesterday, another man died in a single car crash Waterpark, Carrigaline.

9. # VAMPIRES: A psychiatrist in Dublin has done a study of “vampirism” as a mental illness, after being visited by a man who believed he needed to drink blood or die, The Sunday Times reports. The study conducted by Brendan Kelly and his colleague SéamusMac Sibhne was published by the Social History of Medicine; Kelly said: “We looked into reports of vampirism stretching back hundreds of years and found interest in this subject matter has always been a feature of society.”