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1. Final countdown: Exam survival guide for Junior and Leaving Cert students (and parents)

   It is normal for students to feel stressed coming up to the written papers. Here are some simple tips that can help you to dial down the anxiety

2. Veronica Guerin: ‘We still miss her so much. It’s unbelievable to think it’s been 30 years’

   Family to host fundraising event to mark anniversary of murder of campaigning journalist

3. Families of disabled children awaiting needs assessments to raise frustration in Europe

   Children have a legal right to assessments of need for educational purposes, but many wait years

4. Minimum-wage workers in Ireland face rents among highest in Europe

   Workers on lowest wages would have to find extra €306 a month to meet average Dublin rents, research shows

5. Family seeks independent inquiry into death of nephew at Midlands Prison

   Colm Connolly (46) died in April, his relatives want to know what happened

6. Met Éireann forecasts cool weather for early May due to northerly airflow

   Week ahead is likely to be cool for early May, says Met Éireann

7. ‘We got it in neck over price-gouging’: Iran war another woe for Border filling stations

   Taxes, competition from North, higher costs and red tape are pushing sector to the brink

8. Sandyford’s long Sentinel saga draws to a close

   The skeletal building - the south Dublin suburb’s abiding reminder of the property crash - is finally set to be completed

9. Tuam burial site investigators to travel to US to collect DNA samples

   More than 175 people in Ireland and abroad have come forward to inquire about providing samples to help identify babies

10. Man (30s) dies in Co Cavan tractor crash

    Gardai have sought witnesses to single vehicle collision on Sunday