EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you start your day.

1. #READY FOR TERROR: Ireland’s terror threat, assaults on gardaí and the right to grow beards will be debated by rank-and-file gardaí at the Garda Representative Association conference today in Galway.

2. #EUREKA: Church of Scientology members have been cleaning up and planting flowers on Sheriff Street in Dublin.

3. #ON FIRE: Over 350 acres of forestry are under threat in Cork as a gorse fire burns in the Gougane Barra valley.

4. #MACRON ECONOMICS: The value of the Euro surged as first-round numbers showed centrist French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron leading far-right eurosceptic Marine Le Pen.

5. #TEETHING PAIN: Maternity benefit payments due from the Department of Social Protection are currently mired in a backlog extending for “a number of months”.

6. #ON THE RUN: Four members of the Kinahan cartel have fled Dublin as fears of an attack by the Hutch gang grow.

7. #EXPIRATION DATE: The state of Arkansas in the US is rushing to execute a slew of prisoners this week before its cache of lethal drugs run out.

8. #DETAINED: North Korea has arrested another US citizen who was attempting to leave the country.

9. #LUCKY ESCAPE: A man who accidentally snorkeled headfirst into a crocodile in northern Australia escaped with minor injuries yesterday.