Your Thursday lunchtime catch-up

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

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Anti Austerity Alliance TD Paul Murphy has claimed that the decision to press ahead with criminal charges against water protesters is politically motivated.

Meet David Glynn, the top Leaving Certificate student of 2015 with an amazing nine higher-level A1s.

And in part four of our special on rural Ireland, Caroline O’Doherty visits O’Gonnelloe in Co. Clare.