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The 9 at 9 Here’s everything you need to know this morning.
EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.iebrings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.
1. #AER LINGUS: A number of packages have been found during the post-mortem on a man who died on a flight Sunday evening.
2. #CARRICKMINES: Large crowds are expected to pay their respects to victims of the Carrickmines fire at the first of the funerals in Bray today.
3. #FREE: Oscar Pistorius has been released after just a year in prison.
4. #ROADS: The government is planning a massive overhaul of road traffic legislation to crack down on drink-driving, the Irish Times reports.
5. #CRIME: Residents in a large Galway suburb are being terrorised in ‘heroin-fuelled’ burglaries by increasingly reckless thieves.
6. #NOT GOOD ENOUGH: A poll has shown most voters were not swayed by recent Budget announcements and are no more likely to vote for current government parties than they were before then.
7. #CANADA: The country’s Liberal Party had a resounding victory in yesterday’s election, gaining an outright majority in parliament, Associated Press reports.
8. #SYDNEY: Two window cleaners survived a terrifying 12-storey fall from a building.
9. #CLOCK KID: Ahmed Mohamed, the boy who was arrested in Texas for bringing a homemade clock to school, met President Barack Obama at the White House last night.
