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1. Leaving Cert: ‘It requires a lot of mental energy to sit a full exam paper’

   Kat Ruane (18) has ADHD and dyspraxia, and finds it hard to manage the timings of exams

2. Residents facing eviction from retirement village given 11th-hour extension

   Speculation that move by landlord follows change to rental laws that guarantee minimum six-year tenancies

3. From brain to drain: How was €50m wasted on a planned IT system for Ireland’s rail network?

   Oireachtas committees to begin investigations into cost overruns on project once called the ‘brain of the railway’ by a Government Minister

4. Parents taking ‘fake sick days’ as creches close at short notice due to staffing issues

   Creches can’t recruit staff amid ‘perpetual circus’ in childcare sector, says Tigers Childcare chief executive

5. Scrapped €50m Irish Rail IT project could lead to extra costs of up to €800,000 a month

   Initial testing has ‘revealed problems’ with latest software delivered by contractor

6. Jeffrey Donaldson watches from the dock as two alleged victims address sex abuse trial

   Two alleged victims in trial of former DUP leader and wife Eleanor Donaldson have between them spent five days in the witness box

7. Murder accused captured on CCTV saying he could not wait to see face of attack victim

   Alex Deady was heard telling two co-accused he believed his injuries were nothing compared with those of Barry Daly

8. Lithuanian boy brought to Ireland without mother’s consent to remain in country, judge rules

   Teen can remain in Ireland despite mother’s custody rights, High Court rules

9. Third arrest made in investigation of killing of Quayyum Balogun

   Teenage male was arrested on Friday and is being detained at a Garda station in Dublin

10. Leaving Cert: It’s time to relax, recover and recharge

    Okay, it was a short week, but it probably didn’t feel like that for anyone sitting the tests.