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

1. #BERKELEY: Details of a criminal investigation into the tragic balcony collapse in the Californian city will be made public later today. A second student, Conor Flynn, has been released from hospital in the US, while the final Irish funeral, that of Lorcán Miller, takes place in Shankill, south Dublin, this morning.

2. #BOMB: A viable device was made safe by the Defence Forces in Ballymahon, Co Longford last night.

3. #THE QUEEN: The British monarch has weighed into the Brexit debate, saying that she has “every confidence” that Britain and Germany will continue to work together.

4. #MCGREGOR V ALDO: The massively-hyped UFC fight looks like it is set to take place as planned on 11 July after all.

5. #CHARLESTON: Funerals for the 9 victims of last week’s mass shooting at a South Carolina church will begin today. The church’s congregation has vowed to “get through this”.

6. #SCARRED: Ireland’s Eye, the island off Dublin, was badly scorched by last week’s gorse fires.

7. #DNA: An adopted Irishwoman who thought she had located her blood relatives after an extensive search was denied by a negative DNA test.

8. #SCREECH: Dustin Diamond, the actor who played infantile ‘Screech’ Powers in 90s sitcom Saved By The Bell,  is to be sentenced today following his conviction in relation to a bar-room stabbing.

9. #GROSS: An 8-year-old girl has busted the myth concerning McDonalds burgers and ‘use-by’ dates.