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The 9 at 9 You’re nearly halfway through your week. Here’s all the news you need to know this morning.

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

1. #JUNIOR CERT: Almost 60,000 Irish students will find out how they got on in their Junior Cert today. There’s been a big reduction in A grades.

2. #LEAVING LAS VEGAS: A London-bound British Airways plane caught fire in the middle of take off. Everyone on board was evacuated.

3. HOMECOMING: It’s been confirmed that U2 will play four nights in Dublin and two nights in Belfast this November. Tickets go on sale on Monday.

4. #MIGRATION CRISIS: The official plans for how Europe is to deal with the refugee and migrant crisis is being unveiled this morning.

5. #RUMOURS: Apple is to hold one of its biggest events in a while this year. This is what’s expected to be announced.

6. #GOLAN HEIGHTS: Members of the Irish Defence Forces are heading to Syria, including father and son team Liam and Trevor McGahern.

7. #HOMELESSNESS: So far this year, Dublin City Council has spent as much on emergency accommodation for homeless people as it did in all of 2014.

8 #KENTUCKY: The US county clerk jailed jailed refusing to issue marriage licences because of the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage has been released.

9. #FRANCE: A man has gone on trial accused of killing his three-year-old son by locking him in a washing machine.

 

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