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GOOD MORNING

The 9 at 9 Catch up as you wake up.

Updated 9.00 am

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

1. #EBOLA: Ireland will not be following Britain’s lead in bringing in screenings at airports to minimise the risk of Ebola.

2. #OUTBREAK: Meanwhile, the director of the US Center for Disease control has compared the spread of Ebola to the spread of Aids.

3. #BY-ELECTION:Polling stations have opened in Dublin South West and in Roscommon-South to fill the two vacated Dáil seats. 

4. #CRIME: A woman will be charged this morning in connection with the death of man who died after his car drove off a pier in Arklow last year.

4. #DOUBLE TROUBLE: Ireland’s corporate tax regime has made the front page of The Financial Times for the second time in two weeks.

5. #ABORTION: A growing number of women are returning to Ireland to deliver stillborn babies after undergoing an abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.

6. #ASSAULT: Biological evidence from sexual assaults could be kept for up to a year under new plans to allow victims more time to decide on pressing charges.

7. #THE BIG TIME: Ukip have captured their first seat in the UK parliament and came close to winning a second in two by-elections reports The Guardian.

8. #SECTARIAN: A Belfast mother who painted a “Kill All Taigs” slogan on her 5-year-old daughter’s forehead could face charges.

9. #MENTAL HEALTH: Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said that his fellow Irishmen tend to “suffer in silence”with depression or suicidal thoughts.

 

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