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The 9 at 9 Here’s everything you need to know as you start your day.

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

1. #COLOMBIA: A plane carrying 81 people, including members of a Brazilian football team, has crashed near the Colombian city of Medellin. There are reports of some survivors of the crash.

2. #BREXIT: The British Government has distanced itself from a memo outlining plans for Brexit spotted as a lawmaker left Downing Street, which included the aim to “have cake and eat it”.

3. #MORTGAGES: A subsidiary of Permanent TSB has been fined €4.5 million for failing to apply the correct interest rates on 222 tracker mortgages.

4. #ASTI: After a long night of talks, a potential breakthrough appears to have taken place in talks between the ASTI teachers’ union and the Government.

5. #JOBS: There was good news on the jobs front this morning, with 100s of new positions announced with companies such as West Pharmaceutical Services and LinkedIn.

6. #BELFAST: A 41-year-old has been jailed for 10 years for a ‘barbaric attack’ where a man was shot seven times in front of his mother.

7. #FUNDING: Child therapy provider CARI says pressure on funding is ‘intense’ and becoming ‘unbearable’, and has urged Tusla to take action.

8. #AUSCHWITZ:  A German Federal court has rejected a former Auschwitz death camp guard’s appeal against his conviction for being an accessory to murder.

9. #BOHEMIANS: The football club has launched an investigation over Roddy Collins’ claims he reported a paedophile while working there over 20 years ago.

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