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The 9 at 9 Good morning! Here are the nine things to know before you start your Wednesday.

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

1. #BRUSSELS: The Taoiseach Enda Kenny is meeting with the European Council in Brussels today where leaders will discuss tax, and in particular, computer giant Apple’s use of Irish subsidiaries to avoid paying large tax am amounts.

2. #OKLAHOMA: Rescue workers believe there are no more bodies in the rubble left behind by the Oklahoma tornado and the the final death toll is 24, including nine children. The death toll was revised downward from 51 after some victims were counted twice in confusion. More than 200 people were treated in hospital.

3. #PENALTY POINTS: A spokesperson for the gardaí this morning told TheJournal.ie that the Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan was working under the remit of the office, and effectively just doing his job, when he passed on confidential information to the Justice Minister Alan Shatter about Wexford TD Mick Wallace’s brush with the law. Shatter made somewhat of an apology to Wallace in the Dáil yesterday evening.

4. #JOHN KERINS: Gardaí have released the two people arrested on Monday in connection with the murder of former detective garda John Kerins. Searches and a dig at the home of the 49-year-old former garda have now also concluded.

5. #IODINE: Studies revel that iodine deficiency in pregnancy may have an adverse effect on children’s brain development. It has raised concerns that the iodine status of pregnant women is a public health issue that needs to be addressed.

6. #JOBS: Aer Arann has announced that it is to create 50 jobs over the next year as the airline, which flies under the Aer Lingus brand, aims to double its passenger numbers over the next five years.

7. #LIFE’S A BEACH: A report by the European Commission has shown that Ireland’s beaches are among the EU’s cleanest with 97 per cent of them meeting EU standards.

8. #MEXICO: Soldiers have flooded Mexico’s troubled western state of Michoacan to rescue the town besieged by the Knights Templar drug cartel. The drug lords roam the area, burning businesses and homes of anyone who refuses to pay them protection money.

9. #SPOOKED: The Mayor of Dublin, Naoise O’Muiri, believes that the Mansion House is haunted after his four-year-old daughter Briona saw a ghost watching television early one morning, reports The Sun.

  • Over on DailyEdge.ie: Linda Martin’s never going back to Eurovision, Rihanna’s printing her own money, and what can we do with Alan Shatter’s saucy book? It’s the Dredge

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    Mute Beachmaster
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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:07 AM

    Lowest viewing figure since 2008.

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    Mute Bairéid Rísteard
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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:16 AM

    @Beachmaster:hopefully them numbers will continue to dwindle. Apparently 70% of Hollywood’s revenue comes from outside the U.S. interesting statistic when you consider the amount of Americans they’ve managed to p1ss off, I guess they aren’t too bothered about the domestic market.

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    Mute Tony Skillington
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    Feb 28th 2017, 11:34 AM

    As one person tweeted after…M Night Shamalan did a great job directing the Oscars”..

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    Feb 28th 2017, 12:15 PM

    Shamalan went one better and tweeted that he wrote it! https://twitter.com/MNightShyamalan/status/836084032798670848

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:42 PM

    @Beachmaster: 2008 the year or those who watched it lol.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:13 AM

    Ratings down before this fiasco.. talk about making a##es of yourselves.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:48 AM

    @LITTLEONE: the cynic in me says it was purposely done for the sake of controversy, and to get people talking .More than likely not, but I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:33 AM

    Purposely done I doubt it. They have just made themselves look like complete twits . Out of touch with reality…

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    Feb 28th 2017, 8:55 AM

    ““I became an artist and thank God I did,” she continued “because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.” — Viola Davis

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:04 AM

    Is anyone else sock of hearing about the Oscars? You’d swear it actually mattered…

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:10 AM

    @Titus Groan: I’m sock of it too!

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:15 AM

    Like… the envelopes were mixed up and they all lost their mind. Some, their jobs. It’s a joke. It doesn’t matter!!!!

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:17 AM

    Jamie, and Viola Davis gets the Award for ‘Most Pretentious BS of The Century’. Proof, if proof were needed that these peoples learn scripts without understanding the meaning of the words.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:18 AM

    @Titus Groan: You’d be hearing about it for a lot longer in case it’d been the other way round – if La La Land had actually won and Moonlight erroneously read out.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:16 AM

    @Mick Tobin:

    Why do you think that?

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:27 AM

    @Joseph Siddall:

    Maybe it was pretentious, but I am pretty sure after graduating from college, spending four years at Julliard and then performing the play on Broadway for 13 weeks, she understands the meaning of the words she is saying.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:38 AM

    @Gary Caffrey: Remember last year’s hashtag? http://www.thejournal.ie/oscars-so-white-2016-2549939-Jan2016/ Vice versa the failure would have been all the more epic.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:47 AM

    @Mick Tobin:

    You are really trying hard to find a racial side to this. I think that says more about you than anything else.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:53 AM

    @Gary Caffrey: Absolutely not. Just saying the cockup would have been rather more significant. I’m happy with more diversity now and glad it didn’t go the other way.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 2:55 PM

    They put a sick it it at this stage..

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:47 PM

    @Titus Groan: Turns out those in the porn industry have their own award ceremony and the funny thing is that they wear more on their bodies as in clothing than those Hollywood actors, funny that?

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    Feb 28th 2017, 12:35 PM

    Haha.
    The Donald has them rattled.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 2:03 PM

    And the winner of best propaganda goes to…. White Helmets /Al Queda.

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    Feb 28th 2017, 10:45 PM

    @Keiko: Who killed the Syrian Civil Defence force and stole their equipment and who rob the dying of what they have as well as shoot others on sectarian grounds. Funny how in fact Hollywood has really given a reward to the same ones involved in 911 Al Queda really.
    https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=white+helmets+caught+faking+a+rescue&qpvt=white+helmets+caught+faking+a+rescue&FORM=VDRE

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    Feb 28th 2017, 11:11 PM
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    Feb 28th 2017, 9:43 PM

    Did they get any chance to bad mouth The Trumper

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