Every morning TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know with your morning coffee.

1. #QUIT: Stephen Donnelly is to resign from the banking inquiry. Writing in the Sunday Independent, the Wicklow TD said he actions of the Government have shown that they will ‘use their majority to control the inquiry’.

2. #IRAQ: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has blogged about the current violence in Iraq, saying it is not because of the 2003 invasion but inaction in Syria. [BBC]

3. #BUNSEN BURNER: The county managers  of 34 local authorities in Ireland made a combined €4.6 million per year up until the end of 2009.

4. #CARING The number of people in receipt of a carer’s allowance has increased from 23,000 in 2004 to close to 57,200 at the end of last month

5. #FIFA: Weeks before awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, FIFA were warned that there would be a “high risk” of shutting down the event because of a terrorist attack according to The Sunday Times. 

6. #PROBE: The Sunday Business Post reports that the Government has called together top accountancy firms and tax bodies as part of efforts to fight the European Commission’s investigation into Apple’s tax arrangements in Ireland.

7. #TATTOOS: The Government is planning on bringing in tighter regulation of tattoo and body piercing business later this year.

8. #BUYOUT: A US fund has inquired about buying the entire remaining NAMA loan book according to the Sunday Business Post.

9. #EUUUGHH!: Herpes has been in human genes since before we were human. 1.6 million years ago it was passed from chimpanzees to homo erectus.