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The 9 at 9 Here are the nine stories you need to know as you start your bank holiday weekend.

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

1. #BAILOUT: Eurozone finance ministers have agreed on a bailout deal for Cyprus worth €10 billion in order to save the country from bankruptcy.

2. #LABOUR: Minister of State Jan O’Sullivan has said her former party colleague Róisín Shortall should not have resigned, calling it a “wrong decision on her part”.

3. #PROPERTY TAX: Just under 600 people have paid the property tax in its first week, according to new figures released by Revenue.

4. #ABDUCTION: Developer Kevin McKeever who was being questioned by Gardaí over his alleged kidnapping has been released without charge and the investigation has closed, RTE News reports.

5. #PENALTY POINTS: TD Joan Collins has said the controversy surround Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s penalty points has impacted on the reputation of independent deputies in the Dáil.

6. #HACKING: Around 600 new allegations of phone hacking incidents at the now-closed News of the World newspaper have surfaced in an investigation by police in London, the Guardian reports.

7. #ROADS: A man in his early 20s has died in a single vehicle crash in Tipperary in the early hours of this morning.

8. #MEN ONLY: The Irish Times reports that Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore cancelled a planned visit to Savannah in the US state of Georgia to avoid having to attend a men-only dinner, which is one of the main events of St Patrick’s Day in the city.

9. #TREASURE TROVE: The New York Times reports on an extraordinary collection of more than 100,000 artifacts and documents from Ireland’s history – including an original copy of the 1916 Easter Proclamation - amassed by a Mayo fish merchant over his lifetime. The collection is to go on permanent display in Mayo.

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