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

1. #WAITING LIST: Over 10,000 people have been waiting over 10 years for a home in Dublin.

2. #BAILOUT: The Irish Examiner reports that Ireland has paid €40 billion in interest on the country’s bank bailout debt in the last five years – as much as the bailout itself.

3. #PARIS: A cleaner at a five-star hotel in the French capital has been awarded €57,000 after being ‘molested’ by a Qatari hotel guest.

4. #BLUE FLU: Here’s how things looked the last time the gardaí went on strike. Meanwhile, the Irish Times today reports that recruits and volunteers will take up the slack should the gardaí strike next month.

5. #WEATHER: It isn’t nice out there at present, but Met Éireann say it may, repeat may, clear up for later in the afternoon.

6. #DIRECT PROVISION: Nine businesses were paid more than €10 million each for providing direct provision centres.

7. #STARDUST: The Stardust Victims Committee has submitted a dossier entitled “Insults towards the Stardust 48 Fatal Victims” to the Attorney General Máire Whelan.

8. #MAN OF WAR: You can expect to see a lot more of the poisonous Portuguese sea creatures along Irish coasts this weekend.

9. #COINDRUM: You can now exchange your foreign leftover coins at Irish airports for duty free vouchers.