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The 8 at 8 Healthcare assistants in Ireland left without work permits, man charged in connection with investigation into the death of Qayyum Balogun and Zelenskyy writes a public letter to Putin

GOOD MORNING.

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

The Morning Lead

1. A representative group for migrant nurses in Ireland said that several workers have recently been left without work permits after the Department of Enterprise found their employers had failed to meet the required 50:50 ratio of EU to non-EU staff.

Qayyum Balogun

2. A man has been charged in connection with an investigation into the death of 21-year-old Qayyum Balogun, and is due to appear before the court in Dublin on Friday.

Ransomware attack

3. Computer systems across the health service are back up and running after some of the systems were down for several hours Thursday, the HSE said.

Drink-driving

4. Fianna Fáil’s Malcolm Byrne has stepped down as chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on AI after he confirmed he was arrested by gardaí last week on suspicion of drink-driving.

Premier League

5. Liverpool have appointed Andoni Iraola as their new head coach as they seek to return to the intense, aggressive style which brought them so much success in recent years.

West Cork

6. Shirley Foster, the woman who discovered the body of murdered French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier in west Cork almost 30 years ago, has died.

National Audit Office

7. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has received an undisclosed private income from subletting three cottages on his Royal Lodge estate while paying a peppercorn rent for more than two decades, an investigation has shown.

Talks

8. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for face-to-face negotiations in a public letter addressed directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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