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

1. #TRAGEDY: An eight-year-old boy who died following a farm accident in Galway has been named locally as Mark Fordham.

2. #ALERT: An Air France flight from Mauritius to Paris was forced to land in Kenya after a device suspected to be a bomb was found in the toilet.

3. #CHRISTMAS MESSAGE: President Michael D. Higgins has raised the plight of refugees in his Christmas and New Year’s message to the Irish people. (RTÉ)

4. #ECONOMY STUPID: Taoiseach Enda Kenny wants to cut taxes and bring them in line with ‘lower-tax’ economies like the US and Canada, according to the Sunday Business Post.

5. #RENTAL DEBT:  More than seven in ten landlords do not make enough from their properties to pay for their mortgage and tax commitments.

6. #INDIA: One of the men convicted of the brutal gang rape of a young woman on a bus in India will not be released today as planned after a last minute petition.

7. #TRUMP TIME: The three Democratic presidential hopefuls lined up to attack potential Republic opponent Donald Trump in last night’s debate.

8. #ANYONE’S GAME: Spaniards are voting today in what’s believed to be one of the most open elections in decades. (BBC)

9. #ZOMBIE CHRISTMAS: An Ohio man has provoked worldwide attention and local objection to his Nativity scene made completely out of zombie mannequins.