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

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

1. #TUAM BABIES: Underground radar tests commissioned by the Irish Mail on Sunday have found two ‘anomalies’ in the plot indicating areas of greater density. Further investigations are recommended with a Government inquiry likely to be announced in the coming days.

2. #LE14: Counting has begun in the postponed local election in the Ballybay/Clones area to fill the final six council seats.

3. #QATAR: Sony has called on FIFA to carry out an “appropriate investigation” into corruption allegations surrounding Qatar’s successful World Cup 2022 bid.

4. #GETTING OUT: Until now, prisoners serving less than a month were not entitled to early release. They will now be after a change in the rules according to The Sunday Business Post.

5. #DRUNKEN PADDY: A Canadian recruitment firm has apologised for a newspaper ad in Toronto after it was accused of stereotyping Irish workers as hungover.

6. #FF/SF 2016?: Going into a coalition with Sinn Féin would be a decision for the Fianna Fáil membership, not the parliamentary party says Eamon Ó Cuív.

 7. #CLEAR LEADER: A Sunday Independent poll shows that Joan Burton is more than twice as likely to attract voters to the Labour Party than leadership rival Alex White.

8. #CHA-CHING: Licences for gaming machines raises €765,160 in revenue for the State each year.

9. #EGYPT: Soldiers and police have been deployed in force in Cairo ahead of the swearing in of ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as President.

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