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GOOD MORNING

The 9 at 9 You’re this close to the weekend. Here’s all you need to know this morning.

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

1. #BERKELEY: Documents are due to be released today by the City of Berkeley detailing the plans and construction behind the balcony that collapsed.

2. #CLERYS: Natrium, the company that acquired the Clerys building last week leading to the loss of almost 500 jobs, have broken their silence over the sale.

3. #CHARLESTON: Dylann Roof, the arrested suspect in the killing of 9 people in North Carolina yesterday, had been complaining to friends recently about ‘black people taking over the world’.

4. #ARRESTS: Two men have been arrested after shots were fired at armed gardaí in Co Kildare this morning.

5. #GREECE: Has two weeks to find enough money to avoid defaulting on its loans. An emergency EU summit is to be held today to discuss the situation.

6. #DISQUALIFIED: Gardaí are set to get tough on those driving while disqualified after the Minister for Transport granted them new arresting powers.

7. #ELDER ABUSE: The HSE have released details of such abuse brought to their attention, including a woman suspected of removing thousands from her elderly aunt’s bank account.

8. #SO CLOSE: Ryan Tubridy presents the Late Late Show, but it was nearly Miriam O’Callaghan. 

9. #RELENTLESS: An American woman who was asked to tone down her ‘relentlessly gay’ garden has had her revenge.