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

EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you start your day.

1. #THIS IS AN EMERGENCY: Teenager who needs a care placement to help prevent them from self-harming has been confined to a hospital because there is nowhere else for them to go.

2. #WAKE UP CALL: The Grenfell fire tragedy has raised the concerns of architects and politicians who say we must look at our own fire safety compliance more closely.

3. #ROAD FRONTAGE: A bank official now owns a quarter acre of Dublin land after a judge told her the green she had tended for 12 years was now hers.

4. #BLOCKED FROM HELP: Homeless people are unable to access mental health care thanks to red tape and stigma, according to a new report.

5. #NOT HAPPY: Landlords are calling for an end to what they have described as “illegal rent control”.

6. #CAR PARK DEATH: Gardaí have identified the man who was discovered with serious injuries in a Swords car park earlier this week. He is a 46-year-old Latvian national.

7. #NOT VERY NICE: Trump has ended an Obama-era policy which allowed millions of illegal-immigrant parents of children born in the United States to stay in the country.

8. #LIFE-CHANGING INCIDENT: A victim of a ‘one punch attack’ has told how his life was turned upside down after he suffered a serious brain injury after a night out.

9. #RELEASED: Four people arrested in relation to the murder of Mark Desmond have been released without charge. 

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