EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories, a little before nine, you need to know with your morning coffee.

1. #STABBING: An 18-year-old man is in a serious condition in hospital after being stabbed in house in the Bluebell area of Dublin overnight.

2. #POPES: Taoiseach Enda Kenny will attend this morning’s canonisations of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II which will be celebrated by Pope Francis.

3. #POLL: The Sunday Independent’s Millward Brown poll shows Sinn Féin’s Lynn Boylan topping the polls for the Dublin constituency.

4. #SOUTH KOREA: The prime minister Chung Hong-Won has resigned over the ferry disaster and apologised he could not prevent it.

5. #SEARCH: RTÉ reports that there was no sign of a struggle or blood found in the car used by two Dublin men who have been missing since Tuesday.

6. #EUTHANISED: Animal rights campaigners are angry over the deaths of four pregnant mares who were euthanised this week despite offers to rehome them.

7. #RESIGN: An internal row within the National Concert Hall which resulted in five board members resigning was sparked over how €190,000 was spent trying to raise funds from American donors, reveals the Sunday Independent.

8. #HEALTH: The Sunday Independent’s Millward Brown poll shows that majority of people support the Universal Health Insurance plan but fear it won’t work.

9. #SCAM: The Sunday Times reports that over a thousand international students have been left stranded after a staff liquidator was appointed to Eden College in Dublin on Friday.