1. #NURSES NEEDED: Irish hospitals are spending hundreds of thousands on overseas recruitment drives while hundreds of qualified nurses from the US are being turned away.

2. #CRASH: A man was killed when the car he was driving crashed into a wall in Co Louth early this morning.

3. #CATALAN CRISIS: Pro-unity protesters are to gather in Barcelona today after the region’s government declared it independent from Spain.

4. #INVESTIGATION: Gsoc is investigating the suicide of a man who was due to give evidence in a trial linked to the Hutch-Kinahan feud, The Sunday Times reports.

5. #EDITORS: The founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales tells TheJournal.ie that the website’s overwhelming male ratio needs to be fixed.

6. #KEEP ON RUNNING: The Dublin Marathon is getting underway in the capital about now, leading to some traffic restrictions.

7. #TRACKER SCANDAL: Customers who’ve suffered years of overcharging from banks have spoken about  the psychological wounds left by years of financial distress.

8. #NOT FORGOTTEN: An event will be held later today in Cork to remember the 600 trees that were ‘lost’ Storm Ophelia.

9. #GO KATIE: Irish boxer Katie Taylor won her first professional world boxing title in Cardiff last night.