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

1. #JASTINE VALDEZ: Searches are continuing for a missing woman from Wicklow after the man suspected of abducting her was shot dead by gardaí.

2. #FLYING HIGH: Ryanair has announced profits of €1.45 billion for the year to March, a 10% increase on the previous year despite the airline’s cancellation crisis.

3. #CARACAS: President Nicolas Maduro was unsurprisingly declared winner of Venezuela’s election yesterday in a poll rejected as invalid by his rivals.

4. #DART PROBLEMS: Irish Rail has advised customers that there will be “significant” disruption to services between Greystones and Dalkey this week.

5. #YOUTH VOTE: Up to 125,000 people have registered to vote ahead of this week’s referendum on the Eighth Amendment.

6. #GARDAÍ: Former garda commissioner Martin Callinan will continue his evidence at the Disclosures Tribunal this week.

7. #COLD CASE: PSNI detectives investigating the murder of Inga Maria Hauser 30 years ago have arrested two men on suspicion of her murder.

8. #THE EIGHTH: Minister of State John Halligan has said he was he was barred from being a confirmation sponsor because of his stance on the Eighth Amendment stance

9. #SEATTLE: One man was killed and another seriously injured when they encountered and faced down a cougar near in Washington state.