EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you start your day.

1. #SEARCH: The UK Coastguard has said extremely poor visibility is hampering the search efforts for a helicopter with five people on board that went missing over the Irish Sea near the Welsh coast yesterday afternoon.

2. #GARDAÍ: Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan called the most senior officers to Garda Headquarters yesterday and urged them to put on a united front ahead of her address to the Oireachtas Justice Committee today.

3. #TRUMP: The US federal judge in Hawaii who halted President Donald Trump’s revised ban on refugee resettlement and arrivals of people from six mainly Muslim countries has indefinitely extended his order blocking its implementation.

4. #BREXIT: We travelled to some border areas to get people’s views on Britain leaving the European Union.

5. #HOUSING: People in social housing are stigmatised in Irish society and more needs to be done to tackle the issue, according to a new report by Clúid Housing.

6. #DRUGS: Frontline workers say they’re concerned over a rise in the use of an epilepsy drug by habitual drug users in Dublin and Limerick.

7. #BUS ÉIREANN: Readers have told us how the Bus Éireann strike is affecting them.

8. #FIRE: A number of cars that were seized by gardaí were destroyed in a fire at a warehouse in Haggardstown, Co Louth last night.

9. #AUSTRALIA: A powerful cyclone that smashed into northeastern Australia could have caused further damage to the under-pressure Great Barrier Reef, turning parts into an “underwater wasteland”, scientists have warned.