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Here’s all the news you need to know as you start your day.
EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. #LOUTH: Significant damaged was done to a bank this morning during an attempt to remove an ATM.
2. #AUSTRALIA: A heatwave in Australia has intensified bushfires across the country.
3. #LIMERICK: Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after a pedestrian was struck by a car in the early hours of this morning.
4. #NASTY POLITICS: Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has accused the Taoiseach and Fine Gael of “political targeting” against some of his party colleagues.
5. #NOT HAPPY: ’Ridiculous’ weather warnings, inaccurate forecasts and a lack of Northern Irish coverage were among the issues raised in hundreds of complaints to Met Éireann this year.
6. #BRAVERY: A man who fought off the London Bridge terrorist with a narwhal tusk has spoken about the incident publicly for the first time, telling PA he feels a “deep hurt of not being able to save” the two people who were killed that day.
7. #THE FINAL FRONTIER: US President Donald Trump has launched a military ‘Space Force’.
8. #MENTAL HEALTH: Pieta House is expecting a sharp increase in calls and texts to its helpline service over December and January.
9.#LAST MINUTE: Shop owners are slashing their prices today in a bid to encourage last-minute Christmas present shoppers to splurge, the Irish Independent reports.
