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The 9 at 9 Good morning! Here are nine things you want to know as you start your day.

EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know with your morning cup of coffee.

1. #LEAVING CERT Today is a big day for the almost 56,000 students who will receive the results of their Leaving Certificate. Here’s how they got on – notably, more Leaving Cert students are sitting Higher Level maths and getting the top grades. And here’s the Leaving Cert in numbers.

2. #PERU Irish woman Michaella McCollum Connolly and Scottish woman Melissa Reid were expected to appear in court in Peru today over a drugs find. However, former honorary consul of Ireland in Peru, Michael Russell, says they won’t appear in court until Friday or next Monday. They say they were forced to take the packages and did not know they contained drugs.

3. #999 Minister Leo Varadkar is said to be planning a change to the 999 emergency telephone system in the case of marine incidents. The Irish Times reports that the new system would see the expediting of emergency calls to services including the Irish Coast Guard.

4. #CANCER A major breakthrough in the fight against neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, has been made by scientists in Trinity College, the Daily Mail reports. It says the scientists are optimistic their findings will lead to new treatments.

5. #EUROZONE New forecasts to be published today are expected to show that the Eurozone is exiting the recession, RTÉ reports. The statistics from Eurostat are anticipated to show a 0.2 per cent increase in output between April and June, compared to the first quarter, it said.

6. #EGYPT At least 17 people are reported to have been killed after Egyptian police tried to disperse two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo. Egypt’s interior ministry said two members of the security forces were also killed. Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood urged Egyptians to take to the streets to denounce the “massacre”.

7. #ISRAEL The Israeli army says it has carried out an air strike and hit rocket-launching equipment in the Gaza Strip. It says no one was killed in the attack and that it was in response to a rocket fired into Israel yesterday by militants from the area.

8. #HSE The HSE had a gross deficit of €49.3 million to the end of May this year, according to its latest performance report. It says that its year-to-date expenditure is €5.161 billion, and it expects a deficit of over €100m by the end of this year.

9. #WEXFORD REFUGE A refuge in Wexford is under threat of being closed due to a lack of funding. A local campaign has begun to stop the refuge closing on 1 September for 13 weeks. A meeting last night saw a committee being formed and a protest march is being arranged in the town.

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    Aug 4th 2013, 9:05 AM

    re nu7. of course martin should be gone along with any of the others who sat around the table with his mates bert brian ect. these are the people who got us into this mess.

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    Mute Eugene Walsh
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    Aug 4th 2013, 9:07 AM

    That John Perry fella just has to go….do the right thing man, fess up and sort out your biz for cryin out loud

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    Aug 4th 2013, 9:36 AM

    If John Perry has to resign as TD then so does Mick Wallace and James Reilly, can’t force one to go and ignore the other too

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    Aug 4th 2013, 10:05 AM

    conor u know we dont do that kind of thing in Ireland that wood only happen in other Countrys.

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    Aug 4th 2013, 11:11 AM

    Well, the NSA has to prove that their actions are useful, so why not invent a BIG situation and when it does not happen say ‘Well thank God we listened in to all those conversations because we managed to stop an huge terrorist activity in the middle east against our interests’…. Who is kidding whom?

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    Mute Paul Foot
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    Aug 4th 2013, 10:25 AM

    Perry has his Ballymote Costcutter Supermarket leased. How will Danske Bank’s possession affect that? What other properties have been taken by the bank?

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    Mute conor hickey
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    Aug 4th 2013, 9:43 AM

    Australian election still not news.

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    Aug 4th 2013, 9:46 AM

    Hi Conor, it is news, and we will be covering it on the site shortly, if you would like to check back.

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    Mute Golden Bryan
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    Aug 4th 2013, 12:19 PM

    You’re right, it’s not news. In the same way that an election in Ireland or UK or any number of countries would not be news in Australia.

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    Mute Brian O Cinneide
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    Aug 4th 2013, 12:00 PM

    To the 48000 odd followers of the Prophet [pbuh], Eid Mubarak.

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