EVERY DAY, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you need to know with your morning cup of coffee.

1. #DUBLIN BUS: Unions and management at Dublin Bus wrapped up 15-hour negotiations at 5am this morning, following a three-day strike by workers earlier this week. The Labour Court is to present proposals at Dublin Bus later today, after which union members will be balloted.

2. #EXPORTS: The Irish Exporters Association has reduced its growth estimates for the export sector for this year by 1.6 per cent – marking a shortfall of €2.8bn on original estimates.

3. #OMAGH: International human rights watchdog Amnesty International has added its voice to a campaign for an independent, cross-border investigation into the 1998 Omagh bombing. No one has ever been convicted over the Real IRA attack, which killed 29 people.

4. #DOCTORS: Junior doctors are expected to vote in favour of industrial action in a ballot by the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) over the government’s lack of implementation of EU rules on working hours.

5. #M&S: Union representatives are to meet with staff at Marks & Spencer stores around the country today to discuss options and redundancy terms after the retail giant announced it was closing four shops in Ireland.

6. #BROADCASTING: New research has found that just one third of voices on radio news and current affairs coverage on the country’s three main stations – RTÉ Radio One, Today FM and Newstalk – are female.

7. #ASSANGE: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says he will not publicly address Swedish sex allegations before his bid for office in Australia because “Australian men don’t like to talk about their private lives”.

8. #SPAIN: A Spanish parliamentary committee will today quiz senior officials from the country’s railway operator Renfe over a deadly train crash in Santiago de Compostella last month, in which 79 people died and 170 were injured, the BBC reports.

9. #SWEET: Chocoholics everywhere rejoice: a Boston-based study has found that two cups of hot chocolate every day could help to improve brain health and thinking skills in elderly people, RTÉ reports.

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