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WHAT’S THE STORY? 

1. Rachel Sara Murphy from the Irish Film Academy, where Ana Hick was studying, has spoken fondly of the teenager who died tragically yesterday after a night out in Dublin’s Twisted Pepper club.

2. A shootout among rival motorcycle gangs in Texas has left 9 dead and 18 injured in what has been described as a ‘gruesome’ scene.

3. Two bodies have been found at an isolated farmhouse in Limerick. The bodies, of a man and a woman, were found at the house near Askeaton, and are believed to have been at the scene for some time.

4. Sex workers in Australia have called on Jill Meagher’s husband, Tom, to abandon his support for anti-sex trade Irish group We Don’t Buy It.

5. A new Garda body, known as the Policing Authority, is to be set up and will have power over areas of recruitment and strategy for the force.

6. Spanish police have arrested five people who allegedly wanted to buy an impoverished immigrant’s kidney.