LAST UPDATE | 6 Nov 2024

GOOD MORNING.

Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.

Donald Trump

1. Donald Trump has claimed a “magnificent victory” in the US presidnetial election as he won 267 Electoral College votes, just three short of the 270 required to win, with counting still underway. 

Palestine 

2. Israel’s war onGaza has cast a shadow over US election events in Ireland tonight as pro-Palestine protesters demonstrated at two separate viewing parties in Dublin.

Abortion in the US

3. Voters in six US states have approved measures to protect or expand abortion rights, but Florida failed to add abortion rights to its state constitution. 

US Senate 

4. The Republican party has taken control of the US Senate after flipping Democratic-held seats, wrestling away the majority for the first time in four years.

West Cork

5. The remains of a man have been exhumed from a grave at St Patrick’s Cemetery in Bandon in West Cork as efforts are underway to identify him twenty five years after his body was recovered from a river in Cork city.

Drugs

6. Children as young as eight-years-old are being groomed by organised crime groups, a new report has found.

Remembrance Sunday 

7. Stormont’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill is to participate in the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at Belfast City Hall – the first time a senior Sinn Féin figure will take part in such an event in Northern Ireland.

Hate crime

8. A young child and her mother were injured after their living room window was smashed in an incident that the PSNI is treating as a “racially-motivated hate crime”.

Congratulations 

9. World leaders have begun to congratulate Donald Trump ahead of his prospective victory in the US election.