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1. Luke Kelly statue in need of repairs due to visitors taking mementos

   Attraction on Dublin’s Sheriff Street has had pieces of copper snapped off

2. Leaving Cert: ‘I’d be going constantly in and out of class, going to the first aid room’

   Danny Goff is the eldest child in his house - a positive and a negative when it comes to exam pressure

3. One of the most famous houses in Irish tax law history has sold for €10m

   Plus: Republican Taytos sneak into London, Kildare goes dry even before data centres, and Pope Leo the geek

4. Woman who believes ex-husband watches her with ‘hidden cameras’ granted protection order

   Woman in separate case who is ‘paying all the expenses’ claimed husband ‘punched’ her in the face

5. Man appears in court accused of murdering mother of two in Co Galway

   Ali Sohrabi charged after hotel worker Masoumeh Jafri Manojan found dead in Clifden

6. ‘Let us be no more silent’: Protesters keep up pressure over death of Yves Sakila

   Congolese man died after being restrained on Henry Street, Dublin, followed alleged shoplifting

7. Man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder over stabbing ‘during motorcycle event’

   Victim stabbed in chest and suffered head injuries in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim

8. Civil servant accused of leaking confidential information to foreign ‘handlers’, court hears

   Yevgen McKeeffe, an Irish citizen originally from Ukraine, was arrested at Dublin Airport on Thursday

9. Man (20s) dies after car crash in Co Dublin

   Bank holiday roads policing operation in place as busy roads lead to risk

10. ‘Truly beautiful soul’: Alex Coughlan remembered at funeral after Blanchardstown assault

    Sister Zara leads tributes to ‘glue of the family’ who died aged 37