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

1. #DRUGS: New allegations of doping at the Olympic games in Rio have surfaced with a Kenyan official secretly filmed offering athletes advice on details of anti-doping visits, according to reports in The Sunday Times.

2. #FOUND: Two guns, ammunition and a stolen car have been discovered in Finglas, Dublin.

3. #ALEPPO: Rebel groups in Syria claim to have broken through to besieged opposition-held areas in the northern city of Aleppo.

4. #COURT: Two men are due before Tralee District Court next week after being charged in connection with a robbery of a Kerry post office.

5. #INVESTIGATION: Two years after it was set up, what’s happening with the mother and baby inquiry?

6. #INTERVIEW: Richard Boyd Barrett talks about the rise of the left, tragic housing stories and his personal experience with fatal foetal abnormalities.

7. #BLACKOUT: The islands of Inis Oirr and Inis Meáin could be without power until tomorrow as the ESB attempts to install a generator.

8. #STORM NAMES: Met Éireann received complaints about the naming of storms with one viewer saying that calling storms after Christian names is ‘very unfair’.

9. #FACTCHECK: Pay rates for new public servants have been a cause of simmering unrest and controversy in recent years, but was Richard Bruton right to say that newer TDs get paid less?