MORNING BULLETIN: Las Vegas gunman had camera inside hotel room peephole; €30k pay bump for acting Garda commissioner

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MORNING BULLETIN: Las Vegas gunman had camera inside hotel room peephole; €30k pay bump for acting Garda commissioner

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WORLD: The gunman who killed 59 people in Las Vegas had planned the massacre so meticulously that he set up a camera in the peephole of his hotel room in an apparent attempt to spot anyone coming for him, investigators said.

IRELAND: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin is to be paid the full €180,613 salary his predecessor Nóirín O’Sulivan got, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

IRELAND: Young members of the Defence Forces are “totally disillusioned” and many are quitting as they are so poorly paid they cannot afford to commute to their bases.

IRELAND: Environmentalists have described as “shocking and unprecedented” the discovery of 114 dumped tyres and a Chinese fridge-freezer on a 1.2km stretch of coastline.

BUSINESS: No rabbits will be pulled next week from the “budget hat” despite the latest exchequer figures suggesting corporation tax revenues were again picking up steam, analysts said.

SPORT: If Munster were happy to appoint someone who hasn’t previously enjoyed the role of head coach but proved himself in international management, the solution lay under their nose, writes Donal Lenihan.

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FEATURES: Just by turning up and doing what he could manage, Caomhan Keane experiences the benefits of weight loss and lower stress — although he is still rubbish at yoga.

ARTS: Bruce Parry’s new film has the former Tribe presenter seeking to reconnect us with some of the things modern society has forgotten, writes Des O’Driscoll.

VIRAL: Scientists have just shed some light on why sometimes, feeling full might make us want to eat even more.

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