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

1. #BUDGET 2015: It’s B-day and all our coverage is here. Including what we know so far, what our readers want and even a quiz on Budgets past.

2. #HONOURED: Three fifth year students from Cork have been named in Time Magazine’s top 25 most influential teenagers of 2014.

3. #PISTORIUS: Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is back in court today for the second day of arguments ahead of his sentencing.

4. #HE’S BACK: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made his first public appearance in a month and has been pictured with a walking stick reports BBC News.

5. #HIJACK: Two men have been arrested after a taxi driver was held up at knifepoint in Ballymun last night.

6. #IT’S OFF: The Catalan government has called off a referendum on independence planned for next month amid fierce opposition from Madrid.

7. #DONEGAL: A 19-year-old woman has died after the car in which she was a passenger crashed into a ditch in Ballybofey.

8. #HEALTH: Ireland’s child obesity rate has plateaued and it may begin to fall.

9. #LITTLE MAN: The US has released a series of declassified photographs of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki being prepared.