EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you start your day.
1. #DA MOOCH: Anthony Scaramucci was sacked because Donald Trump ‘firmly’ felt his comments were ‘inappropriate’.
2. #JASON CORBETT: The murder trial of the Limerick man in North Carolina has heard that no fingerprints were found on the baseball bat that caused his death.
3. #CORBALLY: Fire services have fought to bring a massive water main breach in Co Clare under control, the second such breach in the region in just two weeks.
4. #COURTS: An 82-year-old man has had his 18-month jail term for abusing a girl cut on appeal.
5. #TRUMPWATCH: It’s emerged that Donald Trump personally dictated a misleading statement made by his son. Meanwhile, the president has authorised sanctions against Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, a man the White House described as a ‘dictator’.
6. #TURKEY: Nearly 500 people will today go on trial for plotting a coup in the country – but the main suspect remains in the US.
7. #KILTYCLOGHER: A town in Leitrim wants you to go and live there.
8. #WITHDRAWAL: Almost a third of Irish couples have used the ‘withdrawal method’ as contraception.
9. #CHILDCARE: Over 5,000 extra childcare places are to be created, according to Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone.
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