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GOOD MORNING

The 9 at 9 Kinahan gun search, a ‘dangerous’ new Snapchat update and Brazil’s car wash bribery scandal – it’s the 9 at 9.

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

1. #GANGLAND: Gardai have been digging up land on Dublin’s commuter belt in a bid to find Kinahan guns and money.

2. #SEXUAL ASSAULT: A Limerick man who attacked and sexually assaulted his elderly neighbour will be sentenced next week for his crimes.

3. #THE SNAPPENING: Parents are being warned about a new Snapchat update which allows users track each other’s exact location in real-time.

4. #RINSED: Brazil’s president has been charged with bribery after he was embroiled in a car wash scandal.

5. #TITILLATING HEADLINES: Councillor Jennifer Whitmore has hit out at the reaction to an Australian senator breastfeeding her child in parliament.

6. #WARNING: Assad’s regime in Syria has been warned that it will pay a heavy price if it carries out another chemical attack on its own people.

7. #ALL THE BAN-TER: We take a look at how Trump’s travel ban finally came to fruition.

8. #BISH BASH BOSH: Cardboard Gangsters looks set to become the biggest Irish film of the year.

9. #TAIL OF TWO CITIES: Johnny Depp could face perjury charges after failing to declare her canines Pistol and Boo on arrival into Australia on a private jet in 2015.