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1. Householders and businesses warned to brace for further flooding in coming days

   Ministers approve increase, from €20,000 up to €100,000, to aid for small firms hit by deluge damage

2. PSNI officers and staff affected by data breach offered £7,500 compensation each

   Spreadsheet of initials, surnames, ranks and roles of 9,500 employees was released in error

3. Live: Dublin flood teams monitoring river and tide levels; ‘unlike any other flood before’, says specialist; rain warnings remain in place

   Dublin to face worst of rain due in coming days as Met Éireann warns of ‘worst-case scenario’

4. Local authorities on ‘full alert’ with further flooding expected

   South and east of country expected to be worst affected, with risk to run into next week

5. Lawyers for Trinity to produce statistics showing it is ‘not a racist university’

   Workplace Relations Commission to hear complaint against college from historian who claims its lawyers are trying to ‘gag’ him

6. Medical student fails to secure injunction stopping UCD disciplinary procedure

   Man facing allegations of violent, abusive and threatening behaviour claimed prejudice towards him

7. ‘Prolific offender’ with 129 previous convictions gets 10-year sentence for attack on doctor

   Judge says victim’s survival was a matter of luck rather than the judgment of violent criminal Dean Hayes

8. Noah Donohoe inquest: PSNI officer defends notes taken on first meeting with mother

   Witness tells inquest she found mobile phone in a grassy area in Castleton Park on the day after boy disappeared

9. Religious education set for curriculum change in North following court judgment

   Move follows Supreme Court judgment which found human rights law had been breached

10. Teacher ‘screamed in agony’ after Garda allegedly twisted arm until broken, court hears

    Woman suing Garda Commissioner seeking damages for alleged assault at station