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GOOD MORNING

The 9 at 9 It’s Friday! Here’s everything you need to know as you start your day.

EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.

1. #HACKED: An Irish politician’s Oireachtas email address has appeared on the leaked database of the affair website Ashley Madison.

2. #NORTH CAROLINA: The family of Limerick man Jason Corbett are preparing to bring his children home for his funeral.

3. #WEST DUBLIN: Google has begun construction of a €150 million data centre in which will create around 400 jobs.

4. #DOLE: Gardaí are sitting in on some interviews with people claiming social welfare as part of efforts to root out potential overpayments or fraud.

5. #INAPPROPRIATE: A Thai television station has issued an apology for dressing up a staffer to look like the suspect in Monday’s deadly bombing in Bangkok.

6. #ARMED ROBBERY: A young man has been arrested after shop staff were threatened with a gun and an iron bar in a robbery in Kildalkey, Meath yesterday evening.

7. #NOT A SUSPECT: Los Angeles police say a task force investigating internet crimes against children served a search warrant at the home of Kiss rocker Gene Simmons.

8. #GIPHY CAM: Forget the static selfie, the world’s biggest GIF site wants to get your trout pout moving.

9. #EPIC JOURNEY: One car, 20 countries and 14,500km: These five guys have just arrived in Mongolia from Dublin.

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