It is amazing what a 5-1 win can do. We didn’t just score goals, we scored good goals and that can only help us going into tomorrow’s Champions League grudge match in Paris.

A deal agreed to guarantee local authority staff work with Irish Water until the middle of the next decade was “cloaked in secrecy”; US Police have launched a massive manhunt following the killing of an officer who interrupted a drug deal; A breakthrough in the war against cancer could save hundreds of lives with a simple urine test. Here’s today’s lunchtime irishexaminer.com round-up.