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1. Another temperature record for May broken with values set to get even higher

   Reading of 29.7 degrees recorded at Oak Park in Co Carlow on Tuesday

2. Paul Cleary appointed Deputy Garda Commissioner after interim stint

   Cleary previously served as Assistant Commissioner, responsible for leading policing of Dublin metropolitan region

3. Decision on first offshore wind farm since Arklow Bank due within months

   Minister wants progress on renewable energy, says public are ahead of Government on issue

4. ‘A momentous day’: Search begins for man believed ‘disappeared’ by IRA 50 years ago

   Seamus Maguire (29), from Co Armagh, is believed to have been killed by republican paramilitary in 1976

5. Child and two adults fired at in Limerick drive-by shooting

   Attack occurred on Hyde Road last Friday, with footage shared across social media on Tuesday

6. ‘Extreme event’: Here is what’s causing record-breaking temperatures in Ireland and Europe

   With climate change, such extreme weather events ‘happen with more ferocity’ and could lead to deaths

7. Meath council ran up €683k bill during 20-year saga over Bohermeen house demolition

   Local authority’s spending in relation to 588sqm home, knocked down last March, soared this year, FOI records show

8. Jury sworn in for sexual offences trial of former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson

   Prosecution to open case on Wednesday, with trial of facts of Eleanor Donaldson, accused of aiding and abetting, to run concurrently

9. Appeal for information following suspected arson attack on Garda station in Wexford

   Incident took place at Blackwater shortly before 3am on Tuesday

10. Gardaí renew appeal on 35th anniversary of Edward Fullerton murder

    Donegal Sinn Féin councillor was shot dead at his home in Buncrana in 1991