EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. #FACEBOOK: The social media giant is set to admit before the Oireachtas it ‘could have done better’ in responding to data concerns in Ireland.
2. #BIG TOM: Country singer Big Tom McBride has died aged 81.
3. #OFFALY: An investigation has been launched after the body of a newborn baby was found in the boot of a car.
4. #STORMY HANNITY: A hearing in New York concerning a porn star who claims she had an affair with Donald Trump descended into chaos when Trump’s beleaguered lawyer outed Fox News host Sean Hannity as his mysterious ‘third client’.
5. #KILCOOLE: A man has been arrested in connection with a Wicklow hit-and-run at the weekend which left a teenager in a critical condition.
6. #THE CASTROS: Cuba is on the verge of a new era with no Castro in charge, with Raul, younger brother of Fidel, set to step down this week.
7. #THE RIGHT MOVE: Nearly seven in 10 Irish people believe the IRFU was correct to sack Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding.
8. #SYRIA: Chemical weapons inspectors are due in Syria tomorrow, but the US is claiming that Russia may have already ‘tampered’ with the site of an alleged chemical attack.
9. #PLASTIC FOR LUNCH: Scientists have accidentally created a mutant enzyme that eats plastic.
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