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

1. #DAY ONE: President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to begin repealing his predecessor’s health care reforms – dubbed Obamacare.

2. #BUS CRASH: A bus carrying mostly teenagers on a school trip has crashed in northern Italy, with reports that 16 have died.

3. #CANNABIS: The largest cannabis haul in the State’s history has been linked to two of the country’s most powerful drug trafficking cartels.

4. #SENTENCED: A 19-year-old man has been jailed for 2 years, with 15 months suspended, for leaving an elderly man with a brain injury after kicking him in the head.

5. #CRIME: Locals have expressed their concern in west Dublin, after four murders have taken place in the last four months.

6. #DRUGS: The drug U-4 was linked to the death of a 16-year-old in Cork earlier this week, and so-called designer drugs have been booming in popularity in Ireland.

7. #RAPE CASE: A man who was found guilty of raping his former partner has been jailed for five years and ordered to pay €40,000 compensation.

8. #SANTRY: A security guard was injured yesterday after being stabbed at the Omni shopping centre in Dublin.

9. #BOOKS: Library suppliers in Ireland fear they could be forced to go out of business after a tender process awarded a key contract to a UK supplier.