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

1. #ATHY: Four young women were killed in a Kildare crash last night. Three other people were seriously injured.

2. #ANGLO: David Drumm has been told by a US court that his bid for bankruptcy has failed. Here’s what you need to know.

3. #OVERCROWDING: GPs say they can’t take on overflow from hospitals as they are already struggling themselves.

4. #DISRUPTION: The Luas Green Line is back up and running after the line was disrupted last night when a car drove up on the tracks.

5. #WELFARE WEDNESDAY: The pub promotion targeting social welfare recipients will not go ahead.

6. #INDEPENDENT REVOLUTION: Shane Ross says his new alliance will ‘absolutely uproot politics in this country‘.

7. #ALIEN ABDUCTION: Eddie Hobbs says he’d even work with Scientologists in the new political party he is involved in.

8. #ANIMAL CRUELTY: A litter of newborn puppies were found ‘heartlessly drowned’ in Mayo.

9. #PROJECTS: The 51st Young Scientist Exhibition opens in Dublin today. [RTÉ]

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