LUNCHTIME BULLETIN: Investigators hopeful black box will reveal what went wrong with Coast Guard helicopter

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IRELAND:  Pieces of debris are being recovered by vessels helping in today's operation to retrieve a Coast Guard Helicopter and its crew.

IRELAND: The Public Accounts Committee has concluded that the sales strategy pursued by Nama in the disposal of its Northern Ireland loanbook was "seriously deficient".

IRELAND: A US-based nun has revealed how she was ’sold’ by the Bessborough mother-and -baby home to an American family in an organised adoption in 1954 and how she was reunited with her birth mother over 50 years later.

WORLD: Scotland will be "at the back of the queue" if it wants to become a member of the European Union if it decides to leave the United Kingdom, Spain’s foreign minister has said.

WORLD: Syrian government forces deliberately bombed a school complex in the country’s northern countryside last October, killing 21 children, a UN commission on the war has said.

BUSINESS: Staff fear the worst for jobs at Coty plant in Tipperary: 'We have probably run out of our nine lives now'.

SPORT: Tipp aside, it’s all to play for in final league games. A draw between Clare and Waterford in Cusack Park on Sunday week could be enough to seal them Division 1 quarter-final berths, says John Fogarty.

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FEATURES: Gráinne McGuinness' latest consumer advice will help you through college costs with a little early planning.

VIRAL: A Dublin landmark popped up on US TV show Saturday Night Live over the weekend.

SHOWBIZ: Reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian was having some fun on Snapchat yesterday and tried out her Irish accent. It's really something!