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LAST UPDATE | 6 Dec 2025
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start your day.
1. In today’s Morning Lead, Eimer McAuley reports on the death of Naomi James.
Naomi had given birth at home without the assistance of a medical professional after getting involved in the online freebirthing world. Her brother warns of the dangerous nature of such births.
2. This year’s Late Late Toy Show kicked off with a bang as we were transported to Whoville.
Patrick Kielty zip lined into the studio as the The Grinch and joined the hundreds of children singing Christmas songs. As always, it was the kids rather than the toys that stole the show. Here are some of the highlights if you missed it.
3. A number of questions have yet to be answered in relation to the secret deal to house former Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, Labour TD Eoghan Kenny has said.
The Cork North Central TD has written to the current Garda Commissioner, Justin Kelly, and the head of the Office of Public Works (OPW), John Conlon, demanding clarity on the timeline of when the lease was taken out on a property rented on behalf of Harris.
4. The Minister for Children is set to unveil her long-awaited childcare action plan later this month, but it is not expected to set out a strict timeline for cutting the cost of childcare to €200 per month.
Minister Norma Foley is expected to bring a memo to Cabinet with the action plan in mid-December, more than six months later than was promised by Fine Gael leader Simon Harris.
5. A short time after the Taoiseach shook hands with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the tarmac of Dublin Airport on Monday night the crew of a Navy ship reported back to their headquarters that they had spotted numerous drones above them in the no-fly zone in the Irish Sea.
Niall O’Connor reports on why we may never know who was operating the drones that flew into the Ukrainian president’s path.
6. US President Donald Trump’s advisers and Ukrainian officials say they will meet for a third day of talks today after making progress on finding agreement on a security framework for post-war Ukraine.
The two sides also offered the sober assessment that any “real progress toward any agreement” will ultimately depend “on Russia’s readiness to show serious commitment to long-term peace”.
7. The Garda Ombudsman has appealed for information around the death of a man who died after an interaction with gardaí on Dublin’s O’Connell Street.
Paul Butler was involved in an incident with gardaí close to the Holiday Inn on O’Connell Street at around 4:15am on 15 August. It is understood he suffered severe head injuries after a fall onto the ground.
8. An advisory panel appointed by the Trump administration’s vaccine-sceptic health secretary has voted to stop recommending that all newborns in the United States receive a hepatitis B vaccine.
The move to end the decades-old recommendation is the panel’s latest contentious about-face on vaccine policy since its overhaul by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earlier this year.
9. ‘Emergency’ funding has been secured to “save” the pulled-down Christmas lights in Drogheda.
The incident happened at the junction of West St/Peter’s St/Laurence’s St in Drogheda when capping from a building fell and this in turn pulled down Christmas lights.
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