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

1. #MARRIAGE: The Taoiseach says he will fight to see the same-sex marriage referendum pass this year.

2. #NEW YEAR: It’s now 2015. Here’s how some people rang in the New Year. In Dublin, the first baby of the year arrived at just four seconds after midnight.

3. #ROADS: Appeals are being made for people to slow down in 2015, after 2014 saw a rise in road fatalities.

4. #CHINA: At least 35 people are dead after a stampede in Shanghai. The incident at a New Year’s celebration is believed to have been caused by a scramble for fake money.

5. #LAUNCH DAY: Ireland gets a new TV station today. UTV Ireland launches at 7.25pm.

6. #GRAFFITI: The Immigrant Council of Ireland have hit out at nationalist graffiti that appeared at Newland’s Cross.

7. #GETTING BOOMER: A British think-thank reckons that the world will be back to boom times in 2015 – and Ireland and England will decide the Six Nations in March.

8. #THE MORNING AFTER: Drivers are being told not get behind the wheel this morning if they’ve been drinking, even if it was last night.

9. #BIASED WEATHER: Today’s Irish Independent carries details of complaints made to Met Éireann, including a complaint that the weather agency ignores bad weather in Munster.