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

1. #ASSAULT: A young man continues to be questioned this morning over the sexual assault of an elderly woman.

2. #ROAD DEATHS: The death of a woman in Kerry brings the number of people who have died on Irish roads this year to 184.

3. #LIVE TV FOLKS: Brendan O’Connor told a heckler in the audience of his show last night to ‘sit down you clown‘ after the man shouted ‘End RTÉ propaganda now’.

4. #WORLD TITLE: Irish fighter Andy Lee became the WBO middleweight champion of the world last night.

5. #BE HONEST NOW: Around €130 million has been wrongfully claimed in child benefit over the past two years.

6.#LANDSLIDE: A woman is searching for her children as 12 of her family members were buried in the Indonesian landslide which killed at least 20 people.

7. #CELEBRITY CANDIDATES: TD Shane Ross says he thinks there’s a problem with ‘celebrity’ election candidates. 

8. #CLIMATE CHANGE: Mary Robinson has criticised the Lima talks saying they have made enough progress ‘to keep the multilateral process alive’ but that they don’t give confidence. [RTÉ]

9. #INSPIRATION: These are the gadgets you want to have underneath your Christmas tree this year.