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1. #LEO: The Minister for Social Protection has said the government doesn’t make unpopular decisions “for the craic”.

2. #HEROIN: A four-year-old accidentally pricked herself on a bag of used drug syringes in Dublin.

3. #CYCLING: The National Transport Authority has told Dublin City Council to stop work on bike infrastructure in the capital.

4. #BRAIN INJURY: Patients needing urgent brain surgery have been turned away from Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.

5. #SOUTH PACIFIC: An Australian kitesurfer has been savaged to death in a shark attack.

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