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

1.#POSITIVE ACTION: Details of how a charity set up for people with Hepatitis C have emerged. RTÉ reports that Positive Action used taxpayers’ money on dog kennels, supermarket bills, and angel healing.

2.#RENT: Rent controls won’t fix the Irish rental market, it has been warned.

3.#SENTENCING: Calls have been made for harsher sentences for those attack gardaí. The call comes as a group who attacked two gardaí look set to avoid prison.

4.#DEPOSITS: The government plans to get around Central Bank plans on limiting lending for house buyers, the Irish Independent reports. The move would mean that potential house buyers could do so with a 10% deposit.

5.#CANADA: The Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that his country will “never be intimidated” after two soldiers were killed in two separate incidents, including at parliament buildings yesterday.

6.#LIMERICK: The Army Bomb Squad was called to make a viable device safe in Limerick last night.

7.#BALLYMUN: Ballymun councillors have hit out at Dublin City Council for accepting money from developers in lieu of social housing.

8.#ON THE UP: A new survey suggests that most Irish businesses are planning to increase wages this year. Hooray.

9.#JUMP SHIP: A Fine Gael local election candidate who quit the party after being overlooked by Enda Kenny for the recent Seanad by-election has begun working for Lucinda Creighton.