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1. #CLAREMORRIS: A teenager has died after she was struck by a car in Mayo yesterday evening. The driver of the car, an 83-year-old woman, was uninjured.

2. #COURTS: Three former Anglo Irish Bank officials are due to be sentenced today after they were found guilty of conspiring to conceal or alter bank accounts connected to chairman Sean FitzPatrick from Revenue.

3. #HEALTH: Registration for free GP care for the over-70s will begin today. Some 40,000 people are eligible.

4. #BOUNCING BACK: Figures yesterday solidified Ireland’s place as the fastest growing economy in Europe, but there are already warnings that this could be short-lived unless competitiveness is boosted.

5. #MH370: More items have been found washed up on the island of La Reunion, where debris believed to belong to a Boeing 777 was found, Sky News reports. This includes a Chinese water bottle and an Indonesian cleaning product.

6. #INJECTION CENTRES: Minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin is considering whether ‘legal heroin’ will be handed out at drug injection centres, The Herald reports. He argues it will be ”safer and more controlled”.

7. #BANK HOLIDAY: AA Roadwatch are warning motorists that care is needed on roads over the weekend as torrential downpours are expected, and crashes are ‘almost inevitable’.

8. #WEST BANK: A Palestinian baby has died in a fire believed to have been started by Israeli settlers, local police said. His family were also badly burned.

9. #MAKING FRIENDS: Want to get to know your neighbours? There’s an app for that.