The 9 at 9: Wednesday

The 9 at 9 Here’s everything you need to know as the day gets started.

EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.

1. #BALLINCOLLIG: Gardaí are still struggling to figure out the motive for the machete killing of Mikolaj Wilk in Cork.

2. #ZERO TOLERANCE: Hours after doubling down on the family separation policy, Trump backs party plans to end it.

3. #BREXIT: Prime Minister Theresa May faces another Brexit showdown today with her own pro-EU MPs.

4. #THE PIPE: Irish Water wants to build an “underground orbital sewer” in north county Dublin.

5. #ANGLO TRIAL: Former bank boss David Drumm is to be sentenced today after his guilty verdict earlier this month.

6. #EUROPHIL: Ireland’s EU commissioner Phil Hogan has said he doesn’t think the British are in a “very coherent position at the moment”.

7. #COURTS: The evidence of Patrick Nevin’s Tinder use was allowed in the rape case because of a “similar modus operandi”.

8. #CLEANING UP: 6,000 bags of rubbish were dumped illegally in Dublin’s inner city last year.

9. #TOP CHEF: A Northern Irish chef has scooped the best female chef in the world award.