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

1. #COSTS: RTÉ is reporting that Irish Water will need to pay for consultancy, legal and procurement costs to process €100 conservation grant to customers.

2. #NEGOTIATION: Jordan is considering the release of an Islamic State bomber as the militants threaten to murder a Jordanian pilot before sunset.

3. #KEEP OUT: Dublin Mayor and former Sinn Féin member Christy Burke says that the party would be ‘hung out to dry’ if they went into Government.

4. #BIG FREEZE: If it’s not snowing where you are already, there’s a good chance it will be soon.

5. MURDER: A man has been arrested after the murder of a man found dead in Belfast this morning.

6. #CRITICAL: The off-duty garda shot in the back in New Orleans is to undergo surgery to remove a bullet according to The Irish Times.

7. #SYDNEY SIEGE: An inquest into the Sydney café siege has heard that a hostage was killed by fragments from a police bullet or bullets.

8. #CHILD BENEFIT: There’s no child benefit for Leaving Cert students over-18, some politicians now want that changed.

9. FUNNY BONE: The same-sex marriage debate came up on TV3′s The People’s Debate last night. Vincent Browne nearly fell off his chair laughing when one man got his sexes messed up.