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1. Prison officers to receive batons in trial amid surge in prison violence

   Annual conference hears body cameras are to be rolled out ‘right across the estate into next year’

2. Man ‘casually’ brandished handgun outside Ballymun Garda Station, later fired by child, court told

   Josh Larkin (20) charged with weapons offences and cannabis possession at Dublin District Court

3. PSNI investigating Dunmurry attack granted additional 36 hours to question man

   Car bomb exploded outside police station near Belfast on Saturday

4. ‘It’s absolutely disgraceful what’s going on’: Ballymun locals react after child discharges firearm

   Schoolchildren sent home with leaflet on how to stay safe as youth woker says ‘only solution’ is lots of youth clubs

5. Online women’s fashion retailer Oxendales is to close

   Santry-based Irish arm employed about 36 staff

6. British army soldiers ‘lost control’, inquest into shooting dead of five people in Belfast finds

   A priest, three teenagers and a man in his 30s died in the Springhill and Westrock areas of west Belfast in July 1972

7. Mystery of disappearance of Co Cork couple in 1991 continues as gardaí launch fresh appeal

   Searches in Ireland and through Interpol have yielded no trace of Conor Dwyer (62) and Sheila Dwyer (60) from Fermoy

8. Cutting Ukrainian accommodation supports could cause spike in asylum requests, groups warn

   Ukrainians ‘absolutely entitled’ to apply for international protection but this could put system under ‘catastrophic strain’, says Brian Killoran

9. ‘Reporting and blocking alone are not enough’: Young people call for action on social media

   Advocates spoke of spending ’hours’ on their phones, encountering bullying with lack of action from social media companies

10. Supreme Court finds for TikTok in dispute with Data Protection Commission

    Social media platform fighting €530m fine over breach of GDPR regulations