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GOOD MORNING

The 9 at 9 Here’s what you need to know as we start the week.

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

1. #SMUGGLERS Cigarette smugglers are dodging airports in a bid to bring their stock in undetected, it has emerged. 

2. #IN POOR HEALTH Accessibility and long waiting times are the main issues affecting our health service. We take a look at what exactly is wrong with the HSE.

3. #ARREST Gardaí have arrested a man in his 40s in relation to a fatal stabbing in Tallaght.

4.#BACKLASH Luke Ming Flanagan sets out his stall on the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes and labels Health Minister Simon Harris as “mean-spirited”.

5. #YOU’LL BE CAUGHT Gardaí have launched ‘Operation Enable’ to catch drivers who use fake permits to park in disabled bays.

6. #CHARGED A man has been charged in connection with an armed robbery on a Spar store over the weekend.

7. #BREACHED X-rays in Penneys, a cancer patient’s chart left on a car roof and a child’s mental-health records faxed to Bank of Ireland – just three of the 113 data breaches made by the HSE.

8. #SHOWDOWN Taoiseach Enda Kenny is expected to address the future of his leadership at the Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting on Wednesday.

9. #FUHRER PHONE Adolf Hitler’s personal telephone sold at auction yesterday for €228,000.