EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you start your day.

1. #HIT-AND-RUN: A teenage boy who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run incident in Dublin on Friday has died in hospital. The 14-year-old was struck by a silver coloured car in Cabra at around 5.40pm. Gardaí are appealing for the driver of the car to come forward.

2. #BUDGET12: Plans to cut all child benefit payments by €10 appear to have been altered by ministers ahead of Tuesday’s announcement: payments for most children will now not be affected – however the higher payments currently made to third and subsequent children will be decreased, according to The Sunday Business Post.

3. #CRECHES: An average of one creche each month is prosecuted by the HSE over issues such as poor hygiene, staffing levels and unsatisfactory vetting of employees, the Sunday Times reports. Incidents recorded include a toddler wandering out of creche grounds, a four-month-old baby being fed by a work experience student, and employees not being vetted by gardaí.

4. #BRADY: Three people who were sexually abused as children by the notorious former priest Brendan Smyth are suing Cardinal Sean Brady, The Sunday Times has reported. The victims claim that Brady exposed them to harm by his role in a canonical inquiry in 1975, during which two of Smyth’s victims were sworn to secrecy.

5. #EURO: One of the euro’s main architects, Jacques Delors, has said that the single currency was “doomed from the very beginning”, saying that outlines for economic cooperation were never followed. In an interview the Telegraph, Delors said: “The finance ministers did not want to see anything disagreeable which they would be forced to deal with”.

6. #RUSSIA: Voting in Russia’s parliamentary elections for the lower house is underway today, amid claims of violations of elections laws ahead of polling day. It is thought that Vladimir Putin’s ruling United Russia party may suffer a loss to its vast majority in the house, Reuters reports.

7. #BUS CRASH: Thirty-three people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a construction lorry in Brazil, in the north eastern state of Bahia, reports the BBC.

8. #EVACUATION: About 45,000 people from the German city of Koblenz have now been evacuated, after a unexploded WWII bomb was discovered in the River Rhine last week. Experts will attempt to defuse the device today, reports the Washington Post.

9. #PLASMA THERAPY: This could be some much-needed news ahead of Christmas: scientists have claimed that inhaling streams cold plasma could be the elusive cure for the common cold. Breathing in the electrically charged gas for a few minutes deactivate the viruses that cause the illness, according to the Telegraph.