Every morning, TheJournal.ie brings you nine things you really, really need to know with your morning coffee.

1. #BOMB A huge blast rocked Derry shortly after midnight last night, as a car bomb exploded outside the Da Vinci hotel and retail complex. No injuries have been reported, but the blast caused extensive damage. The story of the blast broke on Twitter up to an hour before traditional media outlets covered it.

2. #PROPERTY It’s a good day for property junkies, with reports on the state of the market due by My Home, Sherry Fitzgerald and Daft. The Daft report shows that house prices fell by 3.7 per cent in the third quarter of the year – bringing the total fall from peak prices in some areas of Dublin to 45 per cent.

3. #BLOODBATH BUDGET Child benefit is likely to be slashed across the board, rather than means-tested, a number of outlets report this morning.

4. #ASSAULT The Polish man, Lukasz Rzeszutko, who was assaulted on his way to work last Saturday has died. The two teenagers who were being questioned in relation to the assault have been released without charge.

5. #CALLELY Ivor Callely’s High Court challenge against his Seanad suspension is due to get underway today.

6. #ABUSE The two daughters of a man jailed yesterday for life yesterday for raping and abusing them have hit out at the HSE. “The HSE were as bad. I wish they had never took me into care,” one of the women said in her victim impact statement.

7. #MCKILLEN The legal challenge by property developer Paddy McKillen to NAMA comes before the High Court today.

8. #UH-OH Moody’s has put Ireland on review for another downgrade in a move prompted by the bank bailouts, RTE reports.

9. #QUINTUPLETS A gay Irish woman and her Australian partner are preparing to become the parents of quintuplets – who were conceived without the aid of IVF, the Sun reports. Rosemary Nolan (21) and her Australian partner Melissa Keevers (27) – who is carrying the babies – defied 65 million to one odds of conceiving quintuplets naturally. The couple chose the same donor who helped them conceive their daughter Lily, who is now 1.