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

1. #POLL: Fianna Fáil has lurched into another crisis this weekend as the party records new lows in opinion polls. Today’s Sunday Business Post carries a Red C poll putting its support at just 18% – a record low for a Red C survey.

Enterprise minister Batt O’Keeffe was so shocked when the Irish Mail on Sunday called him for a quote that he simply said, “Oh, Jesus” before responding. The Sunday Independent, meanwhile, says relations between the two Brians are at a new low, claiming Ireland’s own Brown-Blair pact is beginning to fray over the stress of the budget.

2. #HELICOPTER CRASH: A number of people have been killed in a helicopter crash in Northern Ireland. Local coastguard and mountain rescue services were summoned to the Mourne Mountains at Hilltown in Co Down at about 4pm after the chopper faltered on the way from Armagh. It is not known how people were on board the six-seater aircraft.

3.#HAITI: The cholera outbreak that had broken out on the island and killed over 100 has spread to the capital, Port-au-Prince, after five people carrying the infection travelled to capital carrying it. The deal toll has now exceeded 200 and the compromising of the capital could affect the ongoing relief efforts in the earthquake-hit island.

4. #LET’S LEAVE: Today’s Sunday Independent carries an interview with Mike Soden, former CEO of Bank of Ireland and current Central Bank advisor, who says Ireland should consider leaving the EU if it handicaps our ability to dictate the pace of our own economic recovery.

Perhaps more notably, though, he also argues the case for Ireland foregoing its sovereignty and becoming the 51st state of the United States in an attempt to give it a more agreeable financial support system.

5. #HSE: The Health Service Executive is to cut up to 6,000 jobs as a result of the forthcoming Budget, the Sunday Tribune claims. The €1bn in cuts that could be expected, it says, will inevitably have to mean massive layoffs with both administrative staff and medical professionals facing redundancy.

6. #BANAMA REPUBLIC: NAMA has agreed a new funding deal to help some of the country’s most indebted developers ‘trade out’ of the recession and repay their debts – a deal which includes pay deals of over €200,000 a year for the developers.

Carrying the story, the Sunday Times says the developers will also be permitted to keep their ‘luxury homes’ as a result.

7. #JOIN THE PARTY: The exchequer paid €13.8m of taxpayers’ money last year to assist with the expenses of running Ireland’s political parties last year, the Sunday Tribune says.

As the largest party in the Dáil, Fianna Fáil received a total of €5.6m – split roughly equally between funding for the party and for the Party Leader’s Allowance – while Fine Gael claimed €4.6m. Perhaps notably, Enda Kenny’s party leaders’ allowance was €300,000 higher than that of the Taoiseach. Labour’s Eamon Gilmore got €1.2m for personal operations – twice as much as the party got in exchequer funding.

8. #INTERNATIONAL RULES: Australia stole a march on Ireland in the first test in Limerick last night, with a generally more assured and composed performance as the Irish failed to settle or gel. Only a late Bernard Brogan goal sparked a final-minutes rally that left Ireland within striking distance ahead of next week’s test.

9. #WEDDING BELLS: Russell Brand and Katy Perry have tied the knot at a “very private and spiritual ceremony” attended by close family and friends in India overnight. AFP reports that the ceremony “had a distinctly Indian flavour with Brand leading the marriage procession on a horse, flanked by dozens of elephants and camels.

“Perry’s wedding dress had an Indian theme and she had traditional Indian henna tattoos on her palms as part of the wedding preparations, media reports said.”