Every morning TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know a little before 9am.

1. #IRAQ: US President Barack Obama continues to mull over a military response to the Iraq crisis but has ruled out sending in combat troops.

2. #LETTER: Fianna Fáil will not be commenting on news that its justice spokesperson Niall Collins wrote to a judge asking him not to jail a convicted drug dealer.

3. #GERRY ADAMS: The Sinn Féin President has described as “incomplete” an Ombudsman report that found that no evidence that the RUC were involved in a loyaist attempt on his life.

4. CITIZEN QUINN: The family of former billionaire Seán Quinn is to sue the State and former Anglo directors for €4.5 billion according to The Irish Times.

5. #JOBLESS: Nearly one quarter of households in Ireland are jobless, that’s compared to a European average of 11%.

6. #IMF 4 JOAN: The IMF have described Joan Burton as the “leading candidate” for the Labour leadership, adding she intends to “maintain the fiscal targets for 2015″.

7. #CORONATION STREET:  Spain’s King Felipe VI will be sworn in as the country’s head of state in parliament later.

8. #ROADS: A motorcyclist died in a crash on Forest Road in Swords in north county Dublin yesterday evening.

9. #RUNAWAY NAZI: An 89-year-old man has been arrested and denied bail in the US for alleged war crimes as a teenage Nazi guard at Auschwitz.