LAST UPDATE | 30 Dec 2025

GOOD MORNING. HERE’S everything you need to know as your day gets underway.

EU Presidency

1. The EU Presidency will cause a certain level of traffic and travel disruption, particularly in Dublin, Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien has confirmed.

Bondi Beach

2. A father and son accused of a mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach “acted alone” and were not part of a wider terrorist cell, police said on Tuesday.

State Papers

3. There were concerns that Stakeknife – the British Army’s top spy in the Provisional IRA’s internal security unit during the Troubles – was “a danger to himself” in 2003, according to Irish Government documents.

Gaza

4. Karol Balfe shares the stories of two women living in the West Bank and writes that Ireland needs to honour its commitment to pass the Occupied Territories Bill.

Trump and Netanyahu talks

5. US President Donald Trump warned Iran of fresh strikes and said Hamas would have “hell to pay” if it fails to disarm in Gaza, as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday.

Interview

6. Independent Ireland leader Michael Collins: ‘Some people in Leinster House won’t even look at us’.

Co Down

7. Police have confirmed that the man found dead in their search for the prime suspect of the Bangor stabbing was the attacker.

State Papers

8. How 1987′s The Joshua Tree had Irish diplomats scrambling for U2 tickets across the US.

Organ donation

9. Adrian Cummins spends more than 10 hours on dialysis each week as he awaits a kidney transplant.