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The 9 at 9 Here’s all the news you need to know this morning.

EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.

1. #COLLUSION The widow of Pat Finucane, a solicitor murdered in Belfast in 1989 in his family home, will take a case calling for a full public inquiry into the crime to the UK Supreme Court today.

2. #TOLERENCE A US border security chief says he has temporarily stopped launching criminal prosecutions of migrants who illegally enter the country with children.

3. #FRANCO An 85-year-old Spanish doctor will appear in a Madrid court today, the first person to go on trial over thousands of suspected cases of babies stolen from their mothers during the Franco era.

4. #COMREG Phone company Eir has been fined €23,500 for continually overcharging customers after it assured a court it had implemented measures to prevent the problem from happening again.

5. #MIND THE GAP Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan will today seek Cabinet backing to draft legislation forcing employers to publish gender pay gap data, RTÉ reports.

6. #BUZZ Buzz Aldrin, the US astronaut and the second man to walk on the Moon, is suing two of his children and a former business manager alleging they stole money and are slandering his legacy, the BBC reports.

7. #HARLEY-DAVIDSON US president Donald Trump is lashing out at Harley Davidson over its plans to shift some manufacturing of its iconic motorcycles overseas to avoid retaliatory European tariffs imposed last week.

8. #CALIFORNIA A 77-year-old-man set a fire to lure firefighters to his Southern California retirement home so he could shoot them, local authorities have said. The attack killed one firefighter and wounded another.

9. #HOT Finally, Met Éireann has reported that it may stay up to 15 degrees during some nights in the week ahead so experts have given some advice to stay cool at night.

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