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Today's top stories in 6 seconds

Don’t have time to mull over the news? Here’s everything you need to know.

WHAT’S THE STORY?

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1. Storm Rachel has knocked out the power in 17,000 homes and pilots have been told not to land at Dublin Airport.

2. The Oireachtas banking inquiry has been told that Ireland “could have done without”Anglo Irish Bank.

3. Thousands of Dunnes Stores staff are one step away from a mass strike.

4. Irish Water says that just over half of people liable for water charges have registered with less than three weeks to go until the deadline.

5. Anton Savage is set to replace Ray D’Arcy on Today FM.

6. Two men have completed the world’s most difficult climb – free-climbing Yosemite National Parks’s 3,000-foot wall El Capitan. Here’s the photos of the journey.

(Main pic: Disruptions to flights as storm Rachel hits Dublin. A number of flights have been diverted to Manchester and Belfast airport as gale force winds continue to batter the country. Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)