EVERY MORNING,TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.

1. #FARMING ACCIDENT: A 19-year-old man has died following an accident on farmland at Derryarkin, Co Offaly.

2. #MAIRIA CAHILL: The abuse campaigner has joined the Labour party and is set to contest the Seanad by-election in Donegal.

3. #OBAMA: The US president has promised an investigation into the apparent US hospital air strike in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which left 19 dead, including 12 workers with medical aid organisation Médicins Sans Frontiéres (MSF).

4. #TRALEE: Gardaí in Kerry have launched a murder investigation into the death of 24-year-old Dmitry Hrynkevich, who was seriously assaulted in the town last week.

5. #FRANCE: 13 people have died on the French Riviera following heavy flooding.

6. #TOY THIEVES: Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin has been targeted by thieves 13 times in the last year and a half.

7. #IBRAHIM HALAWA: The latest trial for the Dublin teenager, who has been imprisoned in Egypt for more than two years, will take place today.

8. #BRIAN FRIEL: The funeral of one of Ireland’s greatest playwrights is to take place today in Donegal.

9. #REFUGEES: Counties Cork and Kerry are to resettle 110 Syrian refugees before the end of the year reports the Sunday Independent.