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The 9 at 9 It’s a little grey this Saturday morning after a week of sunshine. Here’s all you need to know.

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

1. #UMPQUA: Amid calls for tighter gun controls in the wake of America’s worst mass shooting in two years, it has emerged that the shooter was enrolled in the class that he fired upon.

2. #BRIAN FRIEL: Tributes are pouring in for one of Ireland’s best known playwrights, who died yesterday aged 86.

3. #CHANNEL TUNNEL: The cross-channel rail service has been suspended as migrants entered the complex at Calais in the hope of reaching Britain.

4. #AFGHANISTAN: Three people are dead and at least 30 unaccounted for after a US air strike hit a charity compound in Afghanistan.

5. #ANTI AUSTERITY: The Anti Austerity Alliance, which is fighting a Garda ban on collecting money, cancelled a press conference on the subject on foot of legal advice.

6. #FIFA: Sepp Blatter has rejected calls for him to resign from some of the association’s biggest sponsors saying it is “not in the best interests of FIFA” to do so at this time.

7. #SHATTER: The former justice minister Alan Shatter has won his party’s election nomination in south Dublin by just nine votes.

8. #NO FREE PARKING: The Daily Mail reports that Dublin City Council plans to do away with free street parking in the capital entirely.

9. #AER ARANN: The domestic carrier has reportedly agreed a one-year deal to continue its flights to the Aran Islands after the government rowed back on plans to grant the tender to a local helicopter company.

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