LAST UPDATE | 6 Jul 2018

EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.

1. #ADOPTION: New documents reveal how officials questioned if telling those affected by the adoption scandal would “do more harm than good”.

2. #APPEAL: Convicted murderer Graham Dwyer will find out later this year if he has won his data case against the State.

3. #THAILAND: A former Navy Seal diver has died trying to help rescue a group of young boys trapped in a cave.

4. #WHAT’S IN A NAME: A group describing itself as Irish Socialist Republicans staged what it calls a “direct action against colonialism” by spray painting over the word “Victoria” on street signs in Killiney.

5. #TRADE WAR: Trump has just begun what is being described as the largest trade war ever with China.

6. #BREXIT: It’s D-Day for Theresa May as she holds crunch talks with ministers over Brexit.

7. #CULT: The head of a Japanese doomsday cult has been executed.

8.#IN THE DARK: Frances Black said she has no intention of running for president.

9. #KARMA: Three rhino poachers were eaten by lions in South Africa.