EVERY MORNING,TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.
1. #RIP: Pop icon Prince has been cremated and laid to rest at a secret location by friends and family.
2. #JOBBRIDGE: The Department of Social Protection is to consider naming and shaming companies that have abused the JobBridge scheme, reports The Sunday Business Post.
3. #BE COUNTED: Tonight is census night 2016. Have your pen at the ready.
4. #MAPS: The Sunday Times reports that new TD Katherine Zappone will receive an extra €80,000 in travel expenses for living more than 25km from Leinster House even though her home is under 22km away.
4. #STRANDED: A Co. Roscommon family are still unable to access their home, four months after flooding in the county.
5. #RICH LIST: Ireland’s richest 250 people have a wealth that is equivalent to a third of the country’s GDP.
6. ARD FHEIS: In his keynote speech at his party’s conference, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said that his party is ‘proud of the men and women of 1916′.
7. #COMING HOME: Returning emigrants are facing trouble getting social welfare benefits, reports the Sunday Independent.
8. #1916: Commemorations are being held to remember the calendar centenary of the Easter Rising.
9. #FHRITP: RTÉ is to consider moving political reporter Martina Fitzgerald inside Leinster House after a number of interruptions by members of the public during live broadcasts, reports The Sunday Times.
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