EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you head out the door.
1. #MEDITERRANEAN: Two suspected people traffickers have been arrested. It comes after the UN said 800 people were killed in the migrant boat that capsized off Libya on Sunday.
2. #CRISIS: At least 20 more people drowned after another migrant boat carrying 300 people issued distress calls yesterday.
3. #CLEAN UP: Seven of the country’s bathing spots were described as ‘poor’ in the latest EPA Bathing Water Quality Report.
4. #ATTACK: A 13-year-old boy armed with a crossbow and knife killed a teacher and wounded four others at his school in Barcelona.
5. #NEW ZEALAND: AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill.
6. #ROARING: Richard Boyd Barrett said he shouts in the Dáil because, “I just have a loud voice and I am used to the politics of the street.”
7. #REGULATE: Councils are looking at rickshaws and how much hassle they are causing in cities.
8. #TAPA TAPA TAPA: Two of those paintings Michael Flatley makes with his feet sold for €120k last night.
9.#GOOD NEWS: The US government says the humpback whale is no longer endangered.
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