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1. Leaving Cert day one: thousands of students to sit State exams

   State exams for 2026 get under way at 9.30am with English paper one

2. ‘It’s just rotten’: Horse rescue charity appeals for return of missing pony Eleanor

   Reward of €1,000 offered by supporter of the My Lovely Horse Rescue group

3. Body of man recovered after boat sinks in Carlingford Lough

   Coast Guard received a report that the vessel was in trouble near Greencastle Point, Co Down

4. Digger rammed into Co Cork supermarket in failed ATM robbery

   Gang flees empty-handed after attempted theft at SuperValu in Mallow

5. Surgeries needing heart-lung machines at risk of cancellation as perfusionists to strike

   Union representing perfusionists gives notice of industrial action, starting with one-day strike next week

6. Irish director wins US film award for Tipperary murder drama

   Anne Williamson takes prize for best first-time female director at the Indie X Film Fest in Los Angeles

7. Woman ordered to vacate home after ‘attack’ on pregnant tenant led to emergency C-section

   Residential Tenancies Board tribunal deemed Ciara Butler to be the ‘aggressor’ after seeing video footage of incident at Djouce Hall in Bray

8. My Leaving Cert: ‘Remembering the fun, very silly, happy-go-lucky people we were is like a warm hug’

   Erin McGreehan, TD for Louth

9. Leaving Cert: ‘Even though it’s foundation maths it’s still very stressful’

   Grace McNamara (18) is hoping to do well in English and history

10. Reconstruction starts on Dublin City Council house previously occupied by squatters

    Derelict Fairview house ‘structurally unsound’ and will cost at least €200,000 to refurbish