EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.
1. #HOUSING: The Housing Agency’s Annual Conference takes place today with affordability to be a central theme. It comes as more than 1,000 families are now in emergency accommodation, with children being put up on the floor of some adult hostels.
2. #STRIKE: Staff at our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda will today hold a work to rule in a protest over staff shortages in the hospital.
3. #RIO DE JANEIR-NO: Rory McIlroy says he could reject the chance to play at this year’s Olympics because of the Zika virus in Brazil.
4. #TRIBUNAL: A Cork solicitor has been found guilty of misconduct for threatening to destroy files belonging to his clients – the parents of a 16-year-old boy who died in 1999.
5. #KEOGH AND HARRISON: You’re about to hear a lot more about these OTHER garda whistleblowers.
6. #REFUGEE CAMP: Greek authorities have begun an operation to clear a refugee camp on the border with Macedonia.
7. #APOLOGY: Facebook has been forced to backtrack after it banned an Australian ad featuring a bikini-clad plus-sized model promoting positive body image, initially saying the photo’s depiction was “undesirable”.
8. #WISE: Budweiser won’t be using Conor McGregor in its ads any time soon.
9. #LA: Justin Bieber used an Instagram photo of the Rock of Cashel to give out about award shows
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