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1. #SITESERV: Plans to investigate IBRC’s controversial sale of Siteserv are in doubt with confusion over who could carry out the probe.

2. #CHARGED: Premier League footballer Adam Johnson has been charged with three offences of sexual activity with a child and one of grooming.

3. #BANKING CRASH: The former chair of AIB has told the banking inquiry that the bank lent too much to developers during the boom.

4. #ASSISTED SUICIDE: Gail O’Rorke’s trial for assisting the suicide of her friend has heard she told gardaí that someone else was with the deceased when she died.

5. #SINKHOLE: A woman was taken to hospital after falling into a giant hole in a London street this morning.

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