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1. Irish Water has confirmed that people won’t be fined for not registering by midnight.

2. UK agents are allegedly involved in the arrest and torture of an Irish resident in Saudi Arabia.

3. Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn goes on trial today accused of “pimping” as part of a prostitution ring.

4. Michael O’Leary has said that the focus on the Aer Lingus’s slots at Heathrow Airport are ‘largely irrelevant’.

5. Some 60,000 of the poorest citizens in Croatia will have their slates wiped clean from today after the government passed a plan to write off their debts.

6. Centra plans to open 16 new shops creating 380 jobs this year after it made record profits in 2014.

(Main pic: Garda forensic team lead by State Pathologist Marie Cassidy as investigation is under way following the discovery of a man’s body at his home in Dublin. Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland).

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