EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.
1. #JUNIOR CERT: Almost 60,000 Irish students will find out how they got on in their Junior Cert today. There’s been a big reduction in A grades.
2. #LEAVING LAS VEGAS: A London-bound British Airways plane caught fire in the middle of take off. Everyone on board was evacuated.
3. HOMECOMING: It’s been confirmed that U2 will play four nights in Dublin and two nights in Belfast this November. Tickets go on sale on Monday.
4. #MIGRATION CRISIS: The official plans for how Europe is to deal with the refugee and migrant crisis is being unveiled this morning.
5. #RUMOURS: Apple is to hold one of its biggest events in a while this year. This is what’s expected to be announced.
6. #GOLAN HEIGHTS: Members of the Irish Defence Forces are heading to Syria, including father and son team Liam and Trevor McGahern.
7. #HOMELESSNESS: So far this year, Dublin City Council has spent as much on emergency accommodation for homeless people as it did in all of 2014.
8 #KENTUCKY: The US county clerk jailed jailed refusing to issue marriage licences because of the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage has been released.
9. #FRANCE: A man has gone on trial accused of killing his three-year-old son by locking him in a washing machine.
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