EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.

1. #STRIKE: The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors are staging their second day of work-to-rule in a dispute over pay.

2. #OCI: The Olympic Council of Ireland expects a report into ticketing arrangements in Rio to be given to a judge by 15 November.

3. #MIKE PENCE: A plane carrying Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence slid off a runway during a rainstorm at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late last night. No one was injured.

5. #DUBLIN: A man who posed for tourists taking photographs in a Dublin park as his accomplices robbed the group of their belongings will be sentenced in January.

5. #GALWAY: A district court judge has started to hand out driving bans to motorists who fail to attend court for parking offences.

6. #MALE PILL: An injected male contraceptive which lowers sperm counts to prevent unplanned pregnancies has proven effective for 96% of couples during a year-long trial, Sky News reports.

7. #HALLOWEEN: Optometrists have warned people not to use novelty contact lenses ahead of Halloween.

8. #GAMESTOP: Video game retailer GameStop will open its first physical ThinkGeek shop in Europe in a well-known Dublin shopping centre.

9. #1916: The BAI has rejected an official complaint someone made over Oliver Callan talking about Thomas Clarke’s genitalia in on a skit on his RTÉ show Callan’s Kicks.

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