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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you start your day.

1. #WATERFORD: An air accident investigation has been launched after an elderly man died in a light airplane crash outside Dungarvan yesterday.

2. #AUSTRALIA: A ‘monster’ cyclone is battering Australia with 270km/h gusts.

3. #AGIN IT: Over half of Irish people are not in favour of the current Bus Éireann strike.

4. #GARDA COMMISSIONER: Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald will today brief cabinet on the latest Garda controversies in advance of a motion of no-confidence in the Commissioner coming before the Dáil.

5. #NIALL HURLEY: The Co Kerry family of seriously-ill 28-year-old Niall Hurley has begun a campaign to fly him home from Canada.

6. #LEGS IT: The UK Daily Mail has come under fire this morning for running a ‘moronic’ front page focusing on the legs of Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May.

7. #COAL AND OIL: Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order today rolling back much of Barack Obama’s signature environmental protection legislation.

8. #COURTS: A prisoner who attacked a psychiatrist with a sharpened paint roller has been jailed for three years.

9. #MEAL TICKET: Questions have been raised over how schools here are chosen for the government’s meals scheme.