EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know as you kick off your day.
1. #GUILTY: Heriberto Viramontes has been found guilty of the attempted murder of Armagh woman Natasha McShane in Chicago.
2. #SPYING: European leaders meeting in Brussels have united in anger over claims that the US has been spying on them and monitoring their phones.
3. #TAOISEACH: Enda Kenny has four personal assistants and three personal secretaries. Here’s who else works in his department.
4. #SINGLE PARENTS: Hundreds of fathers have been contacting the support service One Family over Budget changes that take away tax credits from one of the parents in a shared custody arrangement.
5. #FIREMEN: Wicklow County Council will be sentenced this morning in connection with the death of two firemen in 2007.
6. #MARIA: DNA tests are being undertaken on a Roma woman in Bulgaria to see if she is the mother of a young girl known as “Maria” who was living with a Roma family Greece.
7. #WALL STREET: Twitter has increased what it hopes to raise in its upcoming IPO to $1.6 billion, valuing the company at up to $11 billion.
8. #CARTELS: Mexican authorities have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of at least 79 killings in a city ravaged by drug cartel violence. (AFP)
9. #IT’S COMING: Met Éireann has issued a yellow alert over heavy rain on the way as Connacht, Leinster and parts of the midlands were hit by between 25 and 35mm of rain overnight.
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