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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.
1. #TD SURVEY: We asked every TD if they want to repeal the Eighth Amendment – here’s what they told us.
2. #EIGHTH AMENDMENT: A new opinion poll shows that people are divided about the Eighth Amendment, which gives the life of the unborn equal status to the life of a mother, but half want it repealed.
3. #20TH ANNIVERSARY: The family and former colleagues of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe are today marking the 20th anniversary of his death at the hands of the IRA. He was killed in an armed raid in a post office in Adare, Co Limerick in 1996.
4. #ONE STEP CLOSER: Hillary Clinton has captured the Democratic White House nomination according to US delegates counts. However, both Clinton and her party rival Senator Bernie Sanders have said it’s not over yet and urged supporters to vote in the upcoming primaries.
5. #TURKEY: At least 11 people have been killed after a bomb targeted a police bus in Istanbul during rush hour this morning.
6. #GANGLAND FEUD: Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch and his family have fled to various safe houses in Europe due to the ongoing feud with the Kinahan family, according to the Irish Daily Mirror.
7. #FLORIDA: MMA fighter Kimbo Slice has died at the age of 42.
8. #DEBTS: The number of professionals including doctors, solicitors and architects seeking help from the Phoenix Project, a charity representing distressed borrowers, has doubled in the last year, the Irish Times reports.
9. #WEATHER: The ESB is working to restore power to homes and businesses after thunder and lightning storms in parts of the country.
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