The 9 at 9: Monday

The 9 at 9 Man charged for Vancouver car attack, Tina Satchwell murder trial begins and Canada goes to the polls

LAST UPDATE | 28 Apr 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

1. A man has been charged with murder after 11 people were killed in a car ramming attack at a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver

2. Donald Trump has said he believed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was ready to concede Crimea to Russia as part of any ceasefire deal, as talks on a truce entered what Washington called a critical week

3. Canada goes to the polls today in an election that will be watched closely by governments around the world and anyone with an eye on how events shape voting

4. The number of uninsured private vehicles on Irish roads has almost halved following the introduction of the new Irish Motor Insurance Database, aimed at assisting gardaí in detecting uninsured drivers

5. The leap card area for train tickets is being extended to cover a 50km radius around Dublin from today

6. Liverpool have been crowned Premier League champions for 2024/25 after a 5-1 win against Tottenham Hotspur yesterday

7. There’s been an increase in the number of drinking water supply samples that exceed legal limits for pesticides.

Uisce Éireann’s public water supply monitoring programme found 66 exceedances in 2024 from more than 34,000 analyses, compared to 52 exceedances in 2023.

8. The trial of Richard Satchwell, who is charged with murdering his wife Tina after the discovery of her body buried beneath the stairwell of their Cork home, will begin at the Central Criminal Court today

9. Cliona Ward, an Irish woman who has legally lived in the US for 30 years, has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after returning from a trip to Ireland to visit her sick father