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1. Judge rejects settlement offers to boys ‘manhandled’ by shopping centre security staff

   Case taken by teens alleging ‘defamation, wrongful imprisonment and assault’ to go to trial

2. Councillors to meet housing body over its decision to scrap cost-rental scheme in Cabra

   Some 40 houses in Cabra site were to be used for workers who earn too much for social homes but can’t afford rents

3. Power cuts affect thousands in south county Dublin

   Areas affected include Mount Merrion, Bootersown, Belfield and Merrion

4. Sixteen-year-old girl often missing from care caught selling crack cocaine on O’Connell Street, court told

   ‘Pressing concerns’ for safety of vulnerable teenager seen by gardaí with older drug users

5. Housing can be a hidden admissions officer for students - quiet, powerful and unaccountable

   Denmark’s social housing model shows how government initiatives can build sustainable and affordable housing for mixed communities

6. Independence of Drew Harris’s appointment questioned following Leo Varadkar comments

   Former taoiseach says there ‘was not a predetermined outcome’ in 2018 appointment of outside candidate Harris to Garda commissioner role

7. Daniel Kinahan expected to face single charge, with evidence relating to murder, drugs and laundering

   DPP opts for one charge of directing crime gang based on intercepted messages and evidence going back more than 10 years

8. Fire safety issue forces Peter McVerry homeless service to move tenants from Dublin property

   St Stephen’s Green hostel being emptied in stages as a precaution

9. School patronage: Can Hildegarde Naughton succeed where six other education ministers have failed?

   Much of the opposition to divestment has been at local level, strongly felt and expressed, even by non-practising parents happy with the status quo

10. Millions earmarked to tackle Northern Ireland’s ‘epidemic’ of violence against women

    Next phase of Stormont initiative will address misogyny as North’s femicide rates continue to rise