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The 9 at 9 It’s Thursday and here’s all the news you need to know.

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

1. #NORTH CAROLINA: The family of Limerick man Jason Corbett will find out today if they can bring his two children home to Ireland.

2. #LIVERPOOL: Cliff Richard is due to sing at the funeral mass of Cilla Black today.

3. #U-TURN: People aren’t too happy with the government’s latest Irish Water plan.

4. #NEW CHALLENGER: Ireland is getting another mobile phone network. Here’s what you need to know about iD.

5. #RIP: Tributes are flowing in for 98FM’s Johnny Lyons who died suddenly.

6. #BELFAST: Police have charged a 53-year-old man in connection with the murder of former IRA prisoner Kevin McGuigan.

7. #TV TIPS: Police investigating the Bangkok bombing should watch the US crime series Blue Bloods for tips, according to the Thai prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

8. #MIGRANT CRISIS: An incredible photo of a refugee family taken by Daniel Etter has gone viral, the photographer said ‘I’ve never had a reaction like this to any one photograph I took.’.

9: #LOVE LETTERS: The woman who loves Norway’s mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik, says she cares even more about him now.

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