EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.

1. #KILDARE: Gardaí have appealed for information from anyone who may have seen or had contact since Friday morning with Kenneth O’Brien, the man whose body was found in a suitcase in the Grand Canal at Ardclough on Saturday.

2. #JOBS JOBS JOBS: Over 1,200 new jobs have been announced across four Irish-based companies today, with new positions in the healthcare, environmental services and software development sectors.

3. #2C-P: The HSE has issued a warning about “party pills” after a number of young people who had taken a psychoactive substance at a house party were hospitalised in Cork.

4. #PASHAWAR: At least 21 people have died in an armed attack on a university in Pakistan.

5. #INVESTIGATION: The Irish Examiner reports that the HSE has admitted to serious failings in cases of rape and physical abuse of disabled children in a foster home between 1983 and 2009.

6. #US ELECTIONS: Former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has endorsed Republican candidate Donald Trump for president.

7. #DATA REQUESTS: The Irish Independent reports that state authorities made over 60,000 applications for access to phone data over a five-year period.

8. #1916 COMMEMORATIONS: Some 4.5 million new €2 coins have been issued into general circulation today to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising.

9. #CLEAR HEAD: North Korea has claimed to have invented a hangover-free liquor that leaves you clear-headed in the morning.