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150415 FIX

1. #SCOTLAND: The search for missing Irish student Karen Buckley has entered its fourth day in Glasgow, with police focusing on a park close to where she was last seen.

2. #TWO WEEKS: Solicitor Brian O’Donnell has lost his appeal to stay at Gorse Hill in Killiney.

3. #FOILED: An attempted robbery of an ATM was stopped by gardaí last night in Monaghan, with the assailants pursued in a car chase that stopped at the border with Northern Ireland.

4. #OVER TROUBLED WATERS: The case of the Kilkenny bridge, which has been the subject of a long-running and bitter dispute within the city, has been settled out of court.

5. #MEDITERRANEAN: Up to 400 illegal migrants died after their vessel capsized off the Libyan coast at the weekend, according to survivors who have now arrived in Italy.

6. #THE Z BROTHERS: Ireland’s best-known alien puppet twins are to make a return to kids television on RTÉ.

Main Pic: Holding a kitten, animal welfare advocates gather at the Quezon city hall to protest the new city ordinance limiting the number of pets for every household to four in the city northeast of Manila, Philippines.