EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you start your day.
1. #LIVEBLOG: There could be a Christmas election on the way. You can follow all the twists and turns this morning on our dedicated liveblog. And you can have a vote on whether or not you want an election in today’s poll.
2. #SPAIN: A Kinahan cartel member has been arrested in Spain after a €35 million cocaine seizure.
3. #PISTORIUS: Disgraced former paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius has had his sentence for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp more than doubled to 13 years and five months.
4. #TAY TAY: Taylor Swift is set to play Croke Park next June.
5. #CANCELLED: Meanwhile, amid all the election brouhaha, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has cancelled a scheduled trip to Africa next week.
6. #MICHAEL FLYNN: Donald Trump’s former national security adviser is now reportedly cooperating with the investigation into Russian interference in last year’s presidential election.
7. #BREAKFAST CLUBS: €5 million of funding for breakfast clubs and community schemes has been pulled after a bureaucratic blunder.
8. #MANSLAUGHTER: Shorter sentences have been given to men if the women they killed were their partners.
9. #ELECTORAL REGISTER: Tomorrow is the last day to get on the register – all the more important now given the political situation at present.
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