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EVERY MORNING,TheJournal.ie brings you the nine things you need to know as you begin your day.

1. #JILL MEAGHER: Tens of thousands of people have marched in Melbourne, Australia, to honour Irishwoman Jill Meagher who was abducted and murdered last weekend, The Age reports. Police closed Sydney Road to traffic for over an hour today as crowds walked along the street where the 29-year-old was last seen before her abduction.

2.#COLLISIONS: Two men have been killed in separate road traffic collisions overnight in Kerry and Wicklow. A 22-year-old man was fatally injured last night when the car he was driving crashed at Rathmore, Co Kerry, and a 40-year-old man was killed in the early hours of this morning when his car struck a wall at Aughrim, Co Wicklow. Gardaí have said both men were alone in their cars and were pronounced dead at the scenes.

3. #ANGLO: Finance Minister Michael Noonan has revealed that staff at the former Anglo Irish Bank cannot identify the exact personnel responsible for auditing the bank in the financial year to September 2008. Anglo’s accounts for the 2008 financial year indicated an after-tax profit of €664 million – but were not published until February 2009, when the taxpayer had already injected €1.5 billion into the bank in exchange for a 75 per cent stake.

4. #TAX: December’s budget could bring the introduction of a tax on maternity benefit as the government has asked Revenue to draw up a model for how the tax would work, The Sunday Business Post reports. Figures show that the cost of the benefit has tripled since 2002 and if the new tax is brought in, it could raise up to €90 million for the exchequer.

5. #CAKE: It has emerged that Sean Quinn’s daughter Ciara had a wedding cake that cost some €100,000 when she married in 2007, The Sunday Independent reports. The cake, prepared by a specialist chef and flown in from New York, was charged with the rest of the wedding costs to a subsidiary of the Quinn Group.

6. #BANKS: More than 40 Bank of Ireland branches are to slash services, with plans to limit over-the-counter cash services to certain days of the week, The Sunday Business Post reports. The plan comes after the bank’s announcement of a new fees structure that will require customers to keep €3,000 in their current account at all times to escape being charged fees.

7. #SYRIA: A fire sparked by battles between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s troops and rebel fighters has swept through Aleppo’s centuries-old covered market, AP reports. The damage to one of the best-preserved old souks in the Middle East was the worst yet to a UNESCO World Heritage site in Syria.

8. #GUANTÁNAMO: The youngest inmate at the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay has been transferred to Canada, The Press Association reports. Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was just 15-years-old when he was wounded and captured by American forces as he fought for Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

9. #ALL-IRELAND: After an incident packed, drawn first game, All-Ireland champions Kilkenny will take on Galway again this afternoon in the All-Ireland SHC final replay. Galway netminder James Skehill suffered an injury scare in training on Friday night and is a doubt, though he is named officially, while Brian Cody has made some brave calls too. How do you think it will go? Tell us in The Score’s open thread…

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