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

1.#CRASH: A man has died in an overnight crash in Dublin. The man’s motorcycle hit a bus on Constitution Hill after midnight.

2.#PORT IN A STORM: Traffic in Dublin is going to be heavy this morning, as the Port Tunnel is closed. Hauliers protesting high costs have blocked the tunnel both ways.

3.#EQUALITY: A Traveller family has been awarded over €6,000 after a funeral home refused to allow their late son repose there.

4.#CLAMPED: 27,000 vehicles were clamped across Dublin in the first half of 2014, figures obtained by TheJournal.ie show. This means the council raked in €2.1 million in clamping fees in the first six months of this year alone. Drivers paid more than €4.3 million in clamping fees last year.

5.#IRA: The republican movement failed victims of sex abuse, Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has said. In a 1,700-word blog post, Adams said that he rejects allegations against him by Maíria Cahill but says the issue “does raise the significant issue of how allegations of abuse had been handled in the past by republicans”.

6.#APPEAL: The family of an elderly blind Leitrim man stabbed over the summer have spoken out about their devastation. Frank Costello was at home listening to the World Cup quarter finals on 4 July when an intruder climbed through the bathroom window and stabbed him. He died in September.

7.#HE’S BACK: After a three-year absence, Enda Kenny is back on Twitter. He wants to talk about the #littlethings.

8.#JOE CAHILL: Today’s Irish Daily Mirror claims that former IRA chief of staff Joe Cahill was a double agent for British intelligence services. The paper says that British intelligence used pictures of Cahill abusing a 14-year-old girl to blackmail him.

9.#BONUSES: The controversy over bonuses at Irish Water continues today, with many papers leading with the revelations that staff at the semi-state may be paid 19% of their salary in “performance-related pay”.