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1. Fuel protests set to cause disruption on major routes across Ireland today

   National fuel protest is taking place over energy prices caused by ongoing war in the Middle East

2. Cancer survivor reeling after mortgage-protection insurance quote of €290 per month

   Tech worker delighted to buy home but believes judgment being passed on something beyond her control

3. Man (60s) killed in Co Louth road traffic collision

   Woman in her 20s taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries

4. Inside the only girls’ boarding school taught entirely through Irish

   Sylvia Thompson speaks to students and teachers at Coláiste Íde in Co Kerry

5. Dead pools: Is a spate of closures sinking the Government’s policies on healthy living?

   Swim Ireland says the ‘shocking’ reality is 57% of swimming pools in the State are located in hotels

6. More houses bought by council for social housing in Dublin face demolition

   Site of Drumcondra houses, acquired by Dublin City Council more than seven years ago, may be sold back to private market

7. Concern grows for children in Tusla placements following killing of teenager last year

   Health watchdog received reports of children being hungry, feeling unsafe and living in unstable placements

8. Large number of parents seek shift to multidenominational ethos in schools

   Almost three-quarters of parents with children in single-sex schools said they would like to see those schools transition to coeducational

9. Former ceann comhairle and Fine Gael minister Seán Barrett dies aged 81

   Taoiseach Micheál Martin described Barrett as a thorough gentleman who ‘believed passionately in parliamentary democracy’

10. Primary school teachers set to be balloted on industrial action

    Move likely if no progress resolving issue of money due under pay agreement