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1. Former OPW worker avoids jail for sending sexualised messages to undercover officer posing as girl

   Kevin Smyth (58) used the username ‘Older Guy’ when communicating with what he believed was a 13-year-old girl

2. Farmer becomes ‘pariah’ after pleading guilty to ‘one of worst’ animal cruelty cases, court hears

   Inspector found large amounts of dead calves as well as some in ‘severe distress’, half-eaten by ‘scavengers’

3. ‘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

4. ‘Disgusting and gut-wrenching’: Regeneration of Dublin’s Oliver Bond flats to be scrapped

   Ninety-year-old complex has been plagued with social and structural problems for decades

5. First project tracking hedgehogs in Northern Ireland aims to help protect their future

   Creatures are classified as near threatened across Europe

6. Is it you? Winning €8.7m Lotto ticket sold in Applegreen station in west Dublin

   The search is on for the owner of the winning ticket

7. Boy (15) among three people arrested over bomb attack on Lurgan police station

   Dissident republicans have been blamed for the incident in March which saw a food delivery driver hijacked

8. Leaving Cert 2026: Tell us about how preparations are going and how you are feeling

   There is so much to prepare for, and plenty to digest in the aftermath, too – if you can imagine a world where this is actually over!

9. Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary calls for ban on early morning preflight airport drinking

   Airline boss says measure would reduce the number of passengers who were disruptive on aircraft

10. Children’s Rights Alliance calls on Meta to engage with media watchdog investigation

    Coimisiún na Meán to investigate if Meta platforms Instagram and Facebook breached provisions of Digital Services Act