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GOOD MORNING

The 9 at 9 Search for survivors continues at Nepal, Ryanair robbed and No campaign posters keep getting ripped down.

EVERY MORNING,TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you head out the door.

1. #NEPAL: Riot police were called in to contain anger among Nepal earthquake survivors as rescuers raced against time to find anyone else alive in the rubble.

2. #PROVE IT: Frances Fitzgerald has asked for a full report on allegations by Independent TD Clare Daly that a garda witnessed a colleague shoot dead a civilian and that it was covered up.

3. #KIDNAPPED: Nearly 300 girls and women have been rescued from Boko Haram, but none are the Chibok schoolgirls.

4. #DEATH PENALTY: Seven foreigners, including two Australians, who were condemned to death in Indonesia sang hymns before being executed by a firing squad.

5. #COSTLY: Brendan Howlin has claimed that the abolition of Irish Water would cost €900 million.

6. #REFERENDUM: The No campaign’s posters for the upcoming same-sex marriage referendum keep getting defaced and ripped down.

7. #OUCH: Around €4.6 million was robbed from one of Ryanair’s bank accounts through a Chinese bank last week.

8. #UNRESPONSIVE: A close friend of Joni Mitchell has said the legendary musician is not in a coma but is “unconscious” in hospital.

9. #TOP OF THE CLASS: Eight Irish college courses have been named in the world’s top 50.