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GOOD MORNING

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

Every Morning, TheJournal.ie brings you the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.

1. #PROPERTY LADDER: There has been a drop in the number of cash buyers snapping up properties.

2.#GLITCH: Bus Éireann is to issue temporary tickets to thousands of school students who are waiting on their yearly tickets to be issued following problems with a new computer system.

3. #RAPE: A huge manhunt was launched last night by gardaí after three men carried out a sexual attack on a young woman in Cabra Park.

4. #TALKS: Russian President Vladamir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko are both due to attend a key meeting in Minsk today.

5. #NO GO: The Chief Medical Advisor at the Department of Social Protection is to continue to stay on in his role on a temporary contract, even though he was due to retire almost two years ago.

6. #RESCUE: A search was launched last night by the Irish Coastguard after a family of five went missing in a woods in Clare.

7. #TRIBUTE: The funeral of the former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds was held yesterday. Here is his son’s touching and emotional eulogy to his father. Listen here.

8.#ROBIN WILLIAMS: Last night at the Emmy Awards Billy Crystal paid a heartfelt tribute to Robin Williams.

9. #JELLYFISH: Tourists to Thailand have been urged to take care when swimming after a young French boy died from a box jellyfish sting.