EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories, a little before nine, that you need to know with your morning coffee.

1. #UKRAINE: Petro Poroshenko is being sworn in as Ukraine’s president after meeting Vladamir Putin yesterday.

2. #GOVERNMENT: A grassroots Labour party group will meet today to call for renegotiation of the Programme for Government and discuss staying in coalition.

3. #800 BABIES: President Michael D Higgins said he was “appalled” by reports of the alleged mass grave in Tuam. He said that it is important that ‘the questions which are provoked by this are answered’ according to The Irish Examiner.

4. #PROTESTS: Police in Brazil used tear gas on striking subway workers in Sao Paulo. There were also massive traffic jams snarling the mega-city as fans booed the national team.

5. #SWING: An Irish Independent opinion poll shows that Government satisfaction stands at just 17 per cent. A level as low as during the last days of the previous government.

6. #WATER METERS: Anti-austerity campaigner Tony Rochford was yesterday granted a temporary injunction blocking the installation of a water meter at his home. (Irish Daily Mail)

7. #CONFUSION: The banking inquiry may not be up and running by the end of the Dáil term as expect. One committee member has described developments as a ‘dog’s dinner’.

8. #SHORT: The garda budget is facing a €70m shortfall according to the Irish Independent and a supplementary budget will be sought to pay wages in the autumn.

9. #NO FUN-GIE: Swimmers in Cork are being urged to stay away from a “non-social solitary dolphin” called ‘Clet’ who swam here from French waters.