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

1. #NO END IN SIGHT: There is a further risk of flooding in the coming days as rainfall is expected to be above average for the first week in January.

2. #30 YEARS: Margaret Thatcher wanted to crush Loyalist strikers just like she did the miners, according to details released by the National Archives. 

3. #RENUA: Lucinda Creighton has said she doesn’t miss Fine Gael, at all. The former junior minister said her experiences as Renua leader are “much more real”.

4. #AEROBICS: In 1984 a new fad known as ‘aerobics’ hit Ireland, and the political establishment wasn’t sure what to make of it at all.  State papers released by the National Archives shows there was real fear that it would damage the public’s health.

5. #GUNS: President Obama has said he will take unilateral action to tackle the problem of gun violence in the US and he wants the public to back him, reports the BBC.

6. #SHOOTING: Gardaí are investigating a shooting that took place at a New Year’s Eve party in Kildare in the early hours of yesterday morning. 

7. #FEE-PAYING: The number of pupils in fee-paying schools is on the rise again, reports the Irish Independent, which states that 60% of the 51 schools are growing their pupil base. 

8. #DWYER: The Irish Daily Mirror reports that the sister of murderer Graham Dwyer has said she is glad to see the back of 2015 and thanked her friends for “keeping her sane”.

9. #UNDOCUMENTED: The number of Irish citizens on temporary visas in Australia has fallen by almost half in the past two years due to tighter immigration laws introduced in the country and the fall in available jobs, reports the Irish Times.