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

1. #EASTER RISING: Sinn Féin has rejected an invitation to commemorate British 1916 deaths. 

2.. #STRIKES: Planes are set to be grounded across Europe today due to strikes by French air traffic controllers. 

3. #POLICING AUTHORITY: Garda Commissioner Noírín O’Sullivan will appear before the policing authority later today. 

4. #MH370: New pieces of debris found in the Indian Ocean may belong to MH370, Australia has said. 

5. #GUILTY: A teenage boy has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his half sister. 

6. #ARRESTED: Three men have been arrested in connection with the assault and false imprisonment of a 51-year-old man in Limerick, RTÉ is reporting. 

7. #GANGLAND: Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has fled Ireland as gardaí seek to question him over the Regency Hotel shooting, the Irish Independent is reporting.

8. #SAVED: The Italian navy has saved 550 refugees after a smugglers’ trawler capsized in the Mediterranean, the Guardian is reporting.

9. #SHOOTING: A shooting at a New York rap concert has left one person dead and three others injured.