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GOOD MORNING

The 9 at 9 Here’s everything you need to know as your weekend gets underway.

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

1. #APOLLO HOUSE: Talks between occupiers and Government ended last night without agreement over the quitting of a Nama-controlled former office building in Dublin.

2. #STABBING: A teenager who handed himself into Garda custody in relation to the stabbing and killing of another juvenile has been released without charge.

3. #FLORIDA: Five people were killed when an Iraq War veteran opened fire at Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida.

4. #CITIZEN’S ASSEMBLY: The Citizen’s Assembly will reconvene today to discuss the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution.

5. #HACKING: US intelligence has found that Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign of hacking and media manipulation aimed at undermining the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton and boosting Donald Trump.

6. #ARREST: A man in his 20s is due before the Criminal Justice Court at 10.30am this morning in connection with an alleged sexual assault of an 18-year-old woman last month.

7. #MESENTERY: A new organ has been discovered by surgeons in Limerick.

8. #ICEBERG: An iceberg the size of Mayo is about to crack off the Antarctic, according to researchers at the UK’s Project Midas.

9. #MANSON: US mass murderer is suffering from intestinal bleeding but is “too weak” for surgery, RTÉ reports.