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1. Man jailed for 6½ years after hijacking car at service station while woman hoovered it

   Joseph Rafferty (45) threatened to kill woman, causing her to jump out while car was moving

2. Flooding latest: ‘Significant’ road damage in Waterford; Clontarf Baths in Dublin ‘destroyed’

   Dublin City Council monitoring river levels as weather warnings lifted

3. David Gillick among those calling for South African teen and family not to be deported

   Local community in South Dublin rallying around Joseph Oyekanmi, a promising athlete, and his family

4. Dublin City Council to review use of safety bollards following bus-crash fatality

   Frank Daly (86) killed in Bus Éireann collision on North Earl Street

5. President listens to Northern Ireland’s youth on final day of official visit

   Catherine Connolly hears about work in Derry around peace process and efforts to build relationships between communities

6. Garda’s gangland team being drafted in to catch scrambler users in Finglas, Dublin

   Clampdown follows killing of Grace Lynch (16), who was hit by speeding scrambler driver as she crossed road in Finglas last month

7. ‘I’m just sickened by it all’: Chunk of pitch and putt course swept away by wild weather

   Chairman says it is ‘heartbreaking’ to see more and more of the Laytown, Co Meath club’s land being lost to coastal erosion

8. Recruit who lost 10.5 stone to pass fitness tests achieves ‘big ambition’ of becoming garda

   Ex-undertaker and firefighter Conor Finan (38) graduated from Templemore Garda College on Friday

9. ‘Everything is gone underwater’: Clontarf Baths owner says amenity has been ‘destroyed’

   Bobby Nolan has ‘never experienced anything like it’ since opening the baths

10. Puppy dumped in Tesco bag makes it to Crufts as Ireland’s star agility dog

    Indiana Bones, handed in to an animal shelter at eight weeks old, is ‘a really good girl’, owner says