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The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: assault, arson, abuse and the reintroduction of slavery. Another weeks dawns in the Banama Republic.

Every morning, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you really need to know with your morning coffee.

1. #ASSAULT A man and two teenagers are due in court today over the assault in Coolock on Saturday morning that has left a 27-year-old Polish man on life support.

2.#ARSON 21-year-old Martin Nevin is photographed in today’s papers grinning on his way into court yesterday, where he was charged with the arson attack that left an 11-year-old girl hospitalised with severe burns.

3.#ABUSE Abuse survivors want to meet the Vatican investigators who have been sent here ahead of the trip to Rome by the country’s four most senior bishops.

4.#BRACE YOURSELF The cuts being sought in the December budget are now likely to reach €4 billion, while the Minister for Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Pat Carey, admitted on the Week in Politics programme last night that a property tax is on the cards.

5.#SLAVERY Former Bank of Ireland chief turned Central Bank Commission member Mike Soden calls for people to work a five and a half day working week.

6.#HEAVE There’s little appetite for another heave against Enda Kenny in Fine Gael, or the rumblings over his leadership continue, depending which media outlet you’re getting your news from. The Irish Times reports that the threat of a heave has diminished but RTE’s Morning Ireland reports that the rumblings continue, while the Indo reveals that man some view as the leader-in-waiting Leo Varadkar is concerned that the party’s vote was lower than 1 per cent in urban areas outside Dublin.

7. #RUDE Three out of every four frontline bank staff are being threatened, physically attacked or insulted by the public on an almost daily basis, according to the Irish Examiner.

8. #NAMAGEDDON Another day, another rash of stories from the international media about the mess we’re in. The  Financial Times has not one, but three articles about Ireland today, including one piece headlined “Ireland: The Long Hangover” which states “The positive case is, arguably, insufficiently understood, partly because the government has messed up its messaging.” The positive case doesn’t seem to have got through to the authors of the other two pieces in the same paper. Wolfgang Munchau writes that: “the Irish government and several private sector economists are delusional about the effects of a financial crisis on growth.” Meanwhile Bloomberg covers the case against NAMA taken by property developer Paddy McKillen with the headline ‘Bono Partner McKillen’s Suit may hold key for Anglo loans’.

9. #TERROR The vagueness of the travel  alert to Europe has left travellers from USA frustrated. “Where is the threat? Europe. What is the target? Subways, railways, aircraft, ships or any ‘tourist infrastructure’” is how the New York Times puts the information being given to intending holidaymakers.

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