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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start the day.
Council Áras bids
1. Twelve potential candidates seeking to make it to the ballot for the upcoming presidential election are to make their first presentations to Kerry County Council this afternoon
McDonald rules herself out
2. Elsewhere in the Áras race, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald confirmed this morning that she will not be running for president
Conor Pass collision
3. A man has died following a collision involving two motorcycles on the Conor Pass, also known as An Chonair, in Co Kerry yesterday afternoon
New banking app
4. Early next year, customers of Bank of Ireland, AIB and PTSB will be able to avail of in-app payment services on a new service called Zippay
Vaping causing nicotine addiction
5. A major study has provided fresh evidence that e-cigarettes are hooking a new generation of Irish people on nicotine, rather than helping them quit smoking
Australian mushroom murderer sentenced
6. A judge has sentenced Australian triple-murderer Erin Patterson to life in prison for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms
Party think-ins
7. Delivering “permanent” relief for working families by “cutting their costs” is a priority for Fine Gael in the upcoming Budget, party leader and Tánaiste Simon Harris is set to tell his parliamentary party in Mullingar today
US sanctions on Russia
8. US President Donald Trump threatened to impose more sanctions on Russia, after the Kremlin unleashed its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine
New train station
9. Irish Rail has unveiled plans to develop a new station in the Kylemore area of Dublin, on the Heuston Commuter line