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The 9 at 9 It’s the weekend. Here’s everything you need to know this morning.

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

1. #BERKELEY: The bodies of four of the victims of the balcony collapse will be flown home today.

2. #GUN CRIME: A man is due in court this morning over the mistaken identity shooting of Keith Walker in Clonsilla.

3. #IRISH WATER: Joan Burton has revealed how much it will cost her department to administer the Water Conservation Grant – some €6 million.

4. #NORTHERN IRELAND: A woman who lost her son to a loyalist bomb is to take a civil action against the state, The Irish News reports.

5. #GRAHAM DWYER: State Pathologist Dr Marie Cassidy said she was surprised by the guilty verdict delivered in the Graham Dwyer murder trial.

6. #HARVEST RUINED: A much loved community garden has been ordered to close its gates just as the summer fruits have started to ripen.

7. #CHARLESTON: US President Barack Obama has said racism remains a “blight” on the country’s society and called for a new debate on gun control, BBC reports.

8. #CRISIS: Greece is hopeful for an 11th hour deal to stop it defaulting on is debt ahead of a fresh round of emergency talks on Monday, AFP reports.

9. #WELL DONE: Scientists have declared humans have started the sixth mass extinction event - it is now too late to reverse the damage we have caused, Stanford News reports.

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