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

1. #LOCKHART: There were no survivors from last night’s balloon crash in Texas.

2. #RETAIL: Finance officials have played down the likelihood of introducing a new tax on e-cigarettes on the grounds that it would be too difficult to enforce.

3. #RIO: A three-person International Olympic Committee panel will make a final ruling on which individual Russian athletes will be able to compete in the Rio de Janeiro Games.

4. #DRUGS: A man is due to appear in court after €442,000 worth of ecstasy and cocaine was found in a Dublin apartment on Friday.

5. #APPEAL: Gardaí have renewed their appeal for information about missing man, Stephen Murphy.

6. #SUNDAY INTERVIEW: In a wide-ranging interview, Catherine Murphy told TheJournal.ie that ’until we start making rules, keeping rules and holding people to account, we will have a corruption problem’.

7. #US: A skydiver has become the first person in history to make a jump of 7.5 thousand meters and land without wearing a parachute

8. #YOUTH FESTIVAL: Pope Francis has urged “drowsy and dull kids” to swap their sofas and video games for walking boots.

9. #PILGRIMAGE: Nearly 25,000 pilgrims from Ireland and overseas are expected to climb up Croagh Patrick in Mayo for ‘Reek Sunday’.