Cllr Paul Gogarty of the Green Party topped the poll in the Lucan electoral area in last year's local elections, not Cllr Joanna Tuffy as stated in a report in Monday's editions headed "Harney must be careful despite national profile".

The seven New Testament texts which two commissions of the Catholic Church in Ireland suggest should be dropped from future church services are all Epistles, not texts from the Acts of the Apostles as stated in a report in Monday's editions.

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