5 Things you need to know today

1. Brexit decision on EU final, warns Cameron

David Cameron has warned that a decision to leave the European Union in this week's referendum will be irreversible, with no prospect of Britain rejoining in future. He warned that, if Britain regrets its decision to leave and seeks to rejoin the EU, it would be obliged, like other new entrants, to adopt the euro and join the Schengen open borders system. "This is a final, irreversible decision. There is no going back when you walk through that door," he said. The prime minister was speaking during a special edition on the BBC's Question Time, during which he faced tough questions from a studio audience. Campaigning in the referendum resumed on Sunday after a three-day suspension following Thursday's murder of Labour MP Jo Cox. MPs will pay tribute to Ms Cox in the House of Commons today after parliament was recalled in response to the killing.

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2. Call for secular Gaelscoil in north Dublin

Campaigners for a multidenominational Gaelscoil in north Dublin are calling for a change in the criteria used to grant school patronage after an application to open an Irish-medium school was rejected. Minister for Education Richard Bruton refused to sanction the Gaelscoil in the Drumcondra/Marino/Dublin 1 catchment area despite the application registering the names of 733 children from the immediate area and adjacent school districts. The children's names – a record-breaking number for Gaelscoil campaigns nationwide – were submitted by proposed patron An Foras Pátrunachta on behalf of parents as part of the application. Despite noting evidence "of considerable demand for all-Irish provision at primary level", the department rejected the Gaelscoil application in favour of an Educate Together school, scheduled to open on the All Hallows campus in Drumcondra in September. Parents are now hoping the department will allow them to build the school adjacent the new school in

Ballinteer primary school building delayed until 2018

3. Ex-IRA chief Kieran Conway on life after the struggle

Solicitor Kieran Conway was back in the Special Criminal Court last Friday, representing a 52-year-old Dublin man, Patrick Brennan, who was charged with possession of four 400g blocks of TNT and three electrical explosive detonators. During the brief hearing, Mr Brennan sat in a light blue, striped T-shirt, with his arms folded. When asked by the court's registrar to stand up, he remained seated, and spoke only to confirm his identity. Asked if he was Patrick Brennan, the Clondalkin man replied: "Yeah." Speaking recently, Conway, a former member of the IRA, said he spent lots of time in courts, including "a fair bit of work in the Special Crim" often representing charges of memberships in all three dissident IRAs, the so-called Real, New and Continuity. The 66-year-old, "amicably separated" with a 25-year-old son, works most weekends, picking up the slack for solicitors who prefer their weekends off. He has the time, he says. "They give Conway a ring and they get a percentage of whatever fee I get. It pays well," he said. Invariably described as the IRA's "former head of intelligence" or "spymaster", or "now a lawyer working in Dublin", and with the south Dublin suburban accent to prove it, Conway is not everyone's idea of an IRA man. Behind the accent is a UCD graduate and a self-confessed muddle of contradictions, a "non-practising communist" who drives a Lexus, lives in Foxrock; rejoicing in a daily dip in the Forty Foot and being a master scuba diver.

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4. Irish values ‘shaped my soul’ says Biden

US vice-president Joe Biden has said his visit to Ireland this week means a great deal to him personally, coming a year after he lost his son and given how the values of his Irish ancestors "have shaped my soul". Ahead of his arrival in Ireland tomorrow for a five-day visit, Mr Biden also said the rhetoric of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was having a negative effect on international relations, although his sentiments did not represent those of the vast majority of Americans. "We are a nation of immigrants. And throughout our past we've seen people spouting the same kind of hateful rhetoric – in the mid-1800s against the Irish, at the turn of the century against Italian and Polish immigrants," he said. "But the journey of America has always been that we overcome the voices of fear." Mr Biden's trip includes visits to counties Louth and Mayo with his extended family where his ancestors, the Finnegans and the Blewitts, emigrated from during the Famine.

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5. Don’t forget Trapattoni era when judging Martin O’Neill

One of the wisest things Roy Keane ever said about management was: "There's a fine line between loyalty and stupidity." It's a dilemma for every manager – when to keep faith with an underperforming player, and when to bomb them out. Love and fear are the most powerful motivators but in sport they work best when they are in balance. As a manager Keane tended to err on the side of fear – players he deemed to have fallen short of the required standard would find themselves frozen out. The risk is that sooner or later you end up with most of your squad in the icebox. Maybe the zero-tolerance approach works better at big teams, where fresh new players can easily be found to replace the frozen ones. Managers of little teams who have only a limited selection of players can't always afford to be so ruthless. The little-team manager more often has to choose faith, in the hope that his belief in the players will inspire them.

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