EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know as you kick off your day.
1. #FURROWED PLOUGHS: The annual Ploughing Championships start this morning in Co Laois, attracting 200,000 people. Follow our man on the ground for updates throughout the day.
2. #ISIS: The US and Arab allies have launched heavy airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria.
3. #MS Y: A draft HSE report says the woman at the heart of a recent abortion controversy was “extremely distressed” but not suicidal, RTE’s Prime Time reveals.
4. #DON’T GET GREEDY: President Michael D. Higgins has warned that Irish society risks repeating mistakes from the boom era.
5. #LEGENDS: Three teenage girls from Kinsale, Co Cork have taken home the grand prize at this year’s Google Science Fair, with their project about cereal crops.
6. #DOUBLE IRISH: The US has announced a crackdown on companies setting up shop abroad (including Ireland), in order to lower their tax burden.
7. #BORED GOSH: The Bórd Gáis theatre in Dublin has finally been sold, in a deal worth €28 million.
8. #CLIMATE: Amid street protests, the UN is holding a summit in New York today, in an effort to sort out the world’s climate change crisis.
9. #HEISENBERG: An English woman is on trial for attempting to poison her mother, in a scheme she took from the TV show Breaking Bad.
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