EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.
1.#STRIKE THAT: There is widespread relief this morning after today’s mooted garda strike was called off at the last minute.
2.#SINCERE FLATTERY: Melania Trump gave her first speech in nearly four months last night, and managed to get accused of plagiarism. Again.
3.#SHANE O’FARRELL: Taoiseach Enda Kenny is to meet with the family of a young student who was killed in a hit-and-run.
4. #CAO: Applications for college courses are open from this morning.
5.#1916 EXHIBITION: The Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI) has ruled that a 1916 exhibition was wrong for not clarifying that it would include a section on the 1980-81 hunger strikers in its advertising material.
6. #SCHOOLS: Richard Bruton has said that a ‘large number’ of secondary schools will close on Monday given teachers who are also members of the ASTI will not be performing supervisory or substitution duties from that date.
7.#SOUTH CAROLINA: A missing woman has been found ‘chained up like a dog’ inside a storage container according to a local sheriff.
8.#COURTS: A Revenue sheriff is suing RTÉ and a plumber for defamation regarding an episode of the Gerry Ryan Show broadcast in April 2010.
9.#GREAT PODCAST?: Eamon Dunphy is to launch an “intelligent, interesting, irreverent” football podcast.
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