The 9 at 9: Wednesday

The 9 at 9 Here’s what you need to know as we start Wednesday.

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

1. #MAURICE MCCABE: The Dáil will today debate a motion of confidence in the government after an explosive day yesterday that raised plenty of questions and the establishment of a new tribunal.

2. #JOBS BOOST: Indeed, the world’s largest jobs website, his set to announce a plan to hire 500 new staff in Dublin.

3. #PROSTITUTION: Laws criminalising the purchase of sex have passed the Seanad but sex workers have expressed their dismay.

4. #DONALD TRUMP: Members of the US President’s campaign team had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before he won the White House.

5. #BRITISH COP: The case of a British undercover police officer operating in Ireland and embedded with environmentalists will be raised with the British Home Secretary.

6. #COLD WAR KILLING: The body of the assassinated half-brother of North Korea’s leader is to undergo an autopsy today.

7. #TOO HOT: A six-year-old girl has received €17,500 after being fed “excessively hot soup” by Dublin creche.

8. #UNTRUE: UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has said he did not lose any close friends at the Hillsborough disaster despite a releasing a statement claiming he had.

9. #CASTRO: Michael D Higgins will today become the first Irish head of state to visit the Communist state of Cuba.