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1. #BREXIT: MPs are due to hold another round of votes today to break the deadlock as Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to make a guest appearance on Eastenders in a last-ditch attempt to save her Brexit deal.
2. #RUBBISH: Environment Minister Richard Bruton has announced additional funding of €3 million to help combat illegal dumping across the country.
3. #MAYO: A man in his 60s has died in a fatal road traffic collision in Co Mayo.
4. #STUDENTS: Just over 80% of students living in privately-operated purpose-built student accommodation in Dublin city centre are international students.
5. #LOS ANGELES: US rapper Nipsey Russell has been shot dead outside his clothes store in Los Angeles.
6. #UKRAINE: Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy has won the first round of Ukraine’s presidential elections.
7. #FINIAN MCGRATH: The junior minister has withdrawn comments he made in an interview with a Sunday newspaper around political policing, after he came in for strong criticism from his Cabinet colleagues.
8. TURKEY: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party has suffered a blow in the country’s local election with the ruling party set to lose the capital Ankara.
9. #WRAP UP: It’s set to be a cold start to April, Met Éireann has forecast, with temperatures dipping as low as 0 degrees tonight.
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