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1. #UP AGAIN: Support for Fine Gael has increased by five points to 29% in the latest Millward Brown/Sunday Independent opinion poll.
2. #CHILLING: Egyptian investigators have said that “a noise” was heard in the cockpit voice recorder of the Russian plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula last week, bolstering suspicions that it was brought down by a bomb.
3. #STATE VISIT: RTÉ reports that Bolivian ministers visiting Ireland have promised the mother of the late Michael Dwyer, the Irishman killed by Bolivian security forces in 2009, an independent international inquiry into his death.
4. #BUSTED: Almost 30,000 landlords are being pursued for not registering their tenants, according to The Sunday Business Post. Most are believed to have been accepting rent in cash in order to avoid paying tax.
5. #HOUSING CRISIS: A Traveller family grieving the loss of a baby daughter have been living in a car for over half a year, despite assurances that emergency accommodation would be found for them, according to today’s Sunday World.
6. #STANDING FIRM: The Mail on Sunday reports that Mayo residents have pledged not to pay ground rents to missing aristocrat and landlord Lord Lucan’s son, who is taking legal action to obtain his father’s title.
7. #SEX WORK: Government plans to criminalise the purchase of sex appear to be based on false sex trafficking figures, a report in The Sunday Independent suggests.
8. #MARRIAGE REFERENDUM: During the marriage referendum campaign, one woman sprinkled holy water to “cleanse her yard” after Yes canvassers called to her home, according to a new book about the campaign.
9. #THE JOY: A new TV3 documentary beginning tomorrow will give an unprecedented insight into life in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison, drawing on interviews with both prisoners and workers in the jail.
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