EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you start your day.

1. #ON THE DRY: Large sections of the north-east of the country remain without water after a main burst at the Staleen water treatment plant, close to Drogheda on Friday.

2. #OBESITY: Over €1 million was spent last year on surgeries to try to help people lose weight.

3. #HOMELESSNESS: Documents released to TheJournal.ie showed how frequent drug use, anti-social behaviour and abusive staff are some of the issues facing people living in homeless emergency accommodation. 

4. #THIEVED: Tourists’ cars are being targeted while they walk through the Wicklow Mountains, gardaí have warned.

5. #GOLDEN YEARS: Former Department of Finance advisor John Moran has said the Government should consider raising the age of retirement.

6. #CARDIAC SERVICES: Matt Shanahan, a spokesman for ‘Health Equality For the South East’, argues the case that medical argument and simple logic are being ignored as the Waterford cath lab controversy rumbles on.

7. #KABUL: Over 20 people have been killed in the Afghan capital of Kabul following an early morning car bomb attack.

8. #GRAFFITI ON THE WALL: Locals in the North Strand area of Dublin have spoken of their anger after anti-graffiti paint wasn’t used on a new cycle bridge that has already been vandalised.

9. #CHARLIE GARD: His parents have said they were shocked to hear staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital had received death threats.