1. #CARRICKMINES FIRE Books of condolences are to be opened around Dublin today as a community comes to terms with yesterday’s horror fire which claimed the lives of five adults and five children.

2. #DRUMM The former Anglo Irish Bank CEO has been arrested in the US pending an extradition hearing.

3. #ACCIDENT A woman in her 80s has died following a two-car accident in Co Monaghan.

4. #TURKEY The east-European country is to observe three days of mourning following yesterday’s bomb blasts in the capital Ankara which killed at least 95 people.

5. #SUPER SUNDAY The country is gearing up for two enormous sporting clashes today, as we take on France in the Rugby World Cup before the day of reckoning with Poland in our final European Championships soccer qualifier.

6. #€4.1 BILLION That’s how much old Irish punts have been exchanged by the Central Bank since the euro came into circulation in 2002.

7. #BUDGET The Sunday Independent reports that the government is to give free pre-school education to every child over the age of three before they begin primary school.

8. #IKEA The Swedish flat-pack furniture experts are trying to make it possible for you to move the walls in your house.

9. #IRISH WATER It’s exactly one year since the first mass water protest on the streets of Dublin.