1. Robbie Brady’s late, late show sets up clash with hosts

The Republic of Ireland will play tournament hosts France in the next round of Euro 2016 after another famous 1-0 victory over Italy, this time on an emotional night in Lille. Twenty-two years after Ray Houghton proved the hero against Italy in the World Cup game in Giant's Stadium, New Jersey, it was the turn of Robbie Brady to write his name into sporting history last night. But Brady was only of many Irish heroes in the game, including manager Martin O'Neill, who made sweeping changes to the team that lost to Belgium and was rewarded with a performance of great courage and skill. The victory leads on to Lyon where the Republic will play France next Sunday, kicking off at 2pm. The end of the group stages of the championship revealed the rest of the fixtures for the first knockout round, with Northern Ireland playing Wales in Paris on Saturday and England playing Iceland next Monday.

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2. Divisive Brexit campaign ends: UK voters to decide

Tens of millions of people across the UK will vote today in a referendum which could take the country out of the EU after more than four decades. Two polls last night put Remain ahead, ComRes by eight points and YouGov by two, but two others earlier in the day gave Leave a slight lead. The ComRes poll for ITV and the Daily Mail put Remain at 48 per cent and Leave at 42 per cent, while YouGov for the Times, which includes Northern Ireland, put Remain at 51 per cent with Leave at 49 per cent. Both showed a swing away from Brexit. Leaders of the rival campaigns criss-crossed the country yesterday, making last-minute appeals for support, as international leaders and financial institutions prepared to respond to a vote to leave the EU. Prime minister David Cameron joined representatives from other parties in Birmingham to drive home his message that a vote for Brexit was a risk Britain could not afford to take.

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3. UCD students face price hikes for campus rooms

University College Dublin (UCD) has been criticised for increasing the cost of its campus student accommodation for the third year in a row. The most expensive UCD accommodation is at Roebuck Castle, at €10,480 for the academic year, while the cheapest campus option is Blackrock Halls, which costs €5,896. A UCD spokesman said: "The cost of on-campus accommodation has increased by 7 per cent this year. This follows a decision taken by the finance committee of the university in 2013 which allowed for annual increases. The decision was taken in order to fund the maintenance of existing residences and to develop further on-campus spaces as soon as possible." The spokesman added: "As part of this development, 354 new on-campus accommodation places are available to students this September. The current target is to increase on-campus places to 4,800." Students seeking accommodation in Dublin at the start of the next academic year will face problems since rents have risen and are higher in the city than they were at the peak of the property bubble.

4. Laois man claims widow promised farm to him 43 years ago

A man has claimed he is entitled to a farm worth €840,000 because he was told it would eventually be his after he agreed to leave school in 1973 and work on it. In High Court proceedings, Séamus Brennan, a single man aged 58, claims Catherine Lowry, who was childless and intestate when she died aged 85 in 2012, promised to "treat him like a son" if he came and lived and worked on the 69-acre mixed-use farm at Ballylinan, Co Laois 43 years ago. He says he spent the next 39 years there on the strength of that promise which, he claims, was repeated over the years. Ms Lowry's nephews – Patrick, Michael and Joseph Knowles – deny his claims and have counter-claimed for possession of the farm. They are also claiming damages arising from the alleged state of the farm. They also allege Mr Brennan bullied and harassed Ms Lowry to try to get her to make a will and she was in fear of him.

5. Can you cure a hangover? The scientists are on it...

Aldous Huxley once described chronic and inescapable sobriety as a most horrible affliction. I reckon Huxley must have had a stash of soma, the wonder-drug of his book Brave New World (1932) which guaranteed a high without a hangover . . . a soma-holiday, I suppose. But horrible affliction or not, I have rather too often sought chronic and inescapable sobriety, especially when my vocabulary has been reduced to the single word uttered by everyone who's had a hangover: "Nnngggh." The medical term for hangover is veisalgia (from the Norwegian kveis, or "uneasiness following debauchery", and the Greek algia, for "pain"), and a prime mover in the queasy catalogue of hangover symptoms is acetaldehyde, produced when the liver breaks down alcohol. However, an enzyme called aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) soon gets to work on detoxifying acetaldehyde. Could ALDH2 be a hangover cure?

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