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

1. #DRUGS HAUL: An Irishman has been charged in relation to a cocaine seizure off the south coast of England worth over €90 million.

2. #TICKET TOUTING: The Olympic Council of Ireland are to meet today to discuss the ongoing ticket touting scandal in Rio, reports RTÉ.

3. #TURKEY: A bomb blast at a wedding in Turkey has killed at least 30 people.

4. #LOCATION LOCATION: Senator Frank Feighan has called for the European Medicines Agency to partly relocate from Canary Wharf to Carrick-On-Shannon.

5. #A DAY IN KNOCK: TheJournal.ie spent a day talking to Irish pilgrims in Knock about why people flock there every year. 

6. #DEADLOCK: The Sunday Times reports the National Maternity Hospital has offered to dissolve its 113 year old royal charter in order to break the impasse that is delaying the relocation to the St Vincent’s Hospital campus.

7. #SITESERV: The IBRC commission into the sale of Siteserv to businessman Denis O’Brien is planning to review text messages sent between various parties, reports The Sunday Business Post.

8. #SYRIA: The elder brother of Omran Daqneesh, the Syrian boy whose dazed and bloodied image shocked the world, has died of wounds sustained when the family home in Aleppo was bombed.

9. #SUNDAY INTERVIEW: TheJournal.ie sits down with Fine Gael TD Noel Rock to talk about all the Olympics scandal, nominating a Taoiseach and repealing the eighth amendment.

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