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1. Thousands of vulnerable children’s records ‘may be destroyed’ in coming weeks

   Concerns mounting for contents that could include children’s letters, poems or accounts of personal events

2. Leaving Cert week three: How to stay motivated for the final hurdle

   ‘It takes resilience. Keep going, the finish line is in sight’

3. From the HSE to Church of Ireland dean: ‘I took a huge salary cut, but I’ve never been happier’

   ‘Sitting in meetings would have killed me’ says Canon Tom O’Brien of his unlikely career change

4. Canadian prime minister Mark Carney’s grandfather’s heroics during the Civil War

   Robert Carney held off a mob of anti-Treaty demonstrators who tried to storm a guard station in Co Wicklow

5. Thousands of people attend anti-racism demonstration in Belfast

   PSNI says number of arrests over disorder in Northern Ireland that followed knife attack reaches 23

6. Aga Khan’s daughter reveals Shergar was killed ‘in an awful way’ by IRA

   Princess says her father refused to pay £2m ransom as money would be used to fund terrorism

7. Swedish contract killer died in Limerick car crash with loaded pistol at his feet

   Armed man wearing balaclava when collision occurred, but accomplice managed to flee scene

8. ‘I am terrified about the winter coming’: One in seven now behind on electricity bills

   Almost 319,000 homes in arrears with electricity bills by the end of March, says energy regulator

9. Sport Ireland pursues workers for almost €300,000 in back taxes

   Unspecified number of workers at publicly funded body were reclassified as employees instead of self-employed contractors

10. A visual timeline of how foreign agitators helped spark racist riots in Belfast

    Notable co-ordination via ‘online social media activity’ from within North and ‘outside the island of Ireland’, say police