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

1. #FLOODING: As Donegal’s flooding cleanup continues, the county braces itself for more rain.

2. #BIG BUCKS: Ryan Tubridy and Claire Byrne have both said they have no issue with their six-figure salaries being made public.

3. #DEATH PENALTY:  A Florida murderer has been put to death with an anesthetic never used before in a US lethal injection.

4. #CHRONIC PAIN: A woman who has been waiting for an operation for more than two years has been told there are no guarantees when she will get her surgery.

5. #WORKPLACE: A bouncer who was racially harassed and told that all Romanians “are thieves and liars” has been awarded €20,000 in a discrimination case.

6. #YORKSHIRE: Police could have captured paedophile singer Ian Watkins had they acted earlier on multiple reports of child sex abuse, a new report has found.

7. #HURRICANE HARVEY: Millions of people in the US Gulf Coast states of Texas and Louisiana are braced for winds of up to 160 km/hr.

8. #SMASH AND GRAB: Burglars smashed a hole in the wall of a London jewellers and crawled inside to steal £1.8 million-worth (about €1.9 million) of goods.

9. #THE ROCK A 10-year-old American boy has saved his brother’s life by copying a scene from one of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s movies. (BBC)