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GOOD MORNING

The 9 at 9 Here’s everything you need to know as you start the last day on the working week.

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

1. #WEATHER: A wet start to the weekend but things should get milder as the days progress.

2. #TRUMP: The US president-elect is due to meet with intelligence officials to be briefed over Russia’s alleged involvement in influencing last year’s presidential election.

3. #TROLLEYS: The hospital emergency task force is due to meet today to discuss this winter’s trolley crisis, RTÉ reports.

4. #NAMA: The State-run bad bank identified close to 7,000 homes for social housing last year, but only 2,748 have been taken up by councils.

5. #SETANTA: A total of 1,666 claimants of Setanta Insurance are still waiting to be paid – nearly three years after the collapse of the firm.

6. #ARREST: A woman has been charged after a woman was mugged and stabbed multiple times in Drumcondra on Tuesday evening.

7. #FACEBOOK LIVE: Outgoing US president Barack Obama has labelled an attack by four men on another man with mental health difficulties as “despicable”.

8. #RSA: Research from the Road Safety Authority has found there are 7,651 drivers with multiple banning orders on them still on the road, the Irish Times reports.

9. #Ballaghaderreen: Roscommon county councillors will meet today to discuss plans to house 80 mostly Syrian refugees in a former hotel in Ballaghaderreen, the Irish Times reports.

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