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

1. #TUAM: A significant number of human remains – of children aged up to two and three years – have been found at the site of the former mother and baby home, run by the Bon Secours sisters, in Tuam. TheJournal.ie found the town eerily quiet as it reels from the confirmation of the truth that was hidden for generations in a muddy plot.

2. #MOTHER AND BABY: Here’s what has been happening since the mass grave revelations three years ago.

3. #VOTES IN: The DUP has scraped first place in Northern Ireland elections with Sinn Féin just one seat behind.

4. #ABORTION: The citizens’ assembly will this weekend hear from 27 different people in an extended schedule that will be its penultimate before a recommendation is made.

5. #RESTAURANT: A 60-year-old housewife, who claims she has difficulties playing the ukulele since her left ring finger was pierced by a sharp piece of metal under a chair in a restaurant, has been awarded €18,500 damages.

6. #WEATHER: Road users are being urged to take extreme care this morning after Met Eireann issued two weather warnings for parts of the country, advising of sleet, snow and heavy rainfall.

7. #HEINOUS ACTS: Jewish centres and schools across the US coped with another wave of bomb threats earlier this week as officials in Philadelphia made plans to repair and restore hundreds of vandalised headstones at a Jewish cemetery.

8. #EARLY INTERVENTION: An app that encourages children with autism to make eye contact won best overall team at the 8th annual BT Young Scientist Business Bootcamp.

9. #PUBLIC DISPLAY: An Irish giant’s bones will stay at a London museum – even though he wanted to be buried at sea.