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The 9 at 9 Here’s everything you need to know this morning.

EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.

1. #CHILDCARE: Crèches may have to publish the cost of their fees under the new childcare package announced in the Budget.

2. #WASTE COLLECTION: Dublin City Council says it is aware of an issue between two waste collection companies in Dublin: Keywaste and Greyhound Recycling. Greyhound says the problem stems from shopkeepers selling the wrong bags in the wrong areas.

3. #STATUS YELLOW: A rainfall warning has been issued for Cork and Kerry.

4. #GOAL: Aid agency Goal is closing its American offices amid a continuing US investigation into its operation in Syria and Turkey.

5. #DONALD TRUMP: The US Republican presidential nominee has criticised the media for reporting “outright lies” that he groped and forcibly kissed women.

6. #WATERFORD: The Mental Health Commission has found that privacy in the Department of Psychiatry in Waterford Regional Hospital has reached “critical” levels of risk.

7. #STRIKES: Michael Moriarty, the General Secretary of the Education & Training Boards Ireland (ETBI) has criticised ASTI teachers for balloting for strikes, saying students will suffer.

8. #LIKE A ROLLING STONE: Yesterday Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature. We take a look at his enduring appeal.

9. #SYRIA: Antonio Guterres, the new Secretary General of the United Nations, has said his biggest challenge will be trying to end the civil war in Syria which has killed 300,000 people and lasted more than five years.

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