LAST UPDATE | 4 Jun 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

Data centres

1. In today’s Morning Lead, The Journal Investigates maps data centres around Ireland, and explains why you should care.

Trade wars

2. The United States has followed through on Donald Trump’s promise to double its tariffs on steel and aluminium. 

No aid in Gaza today

3. Aid distribution in the Gaza Strip has been suspended today after the Israeli military declared roads leading to centres “combat zones”. 

Housing 

4. The housing minister is considering introducing a raft of new planning exemptions, including for attic conversions, subdivision of existing dwellings and home extensions to house elderly relatives.

Madeleine McCann 

5. New searches for Madeleine McCann are to resume in Portugal today, near where the little girl was last seen in 2007.

Care homes

6. A new RTÉ Investigates programme to air tonight goes undercover in a large nursing home chain with locations in Dublin and Laois to expose poor treatment and practice.

Road safety

7. A mother in Northern Ireland whose daughter died when she was hit by a car after getting off her school bus is campaigning for new laws around bus-related road safety.

Carlow shooting 

8. Gardaí investigating the Carlow shopping centre shooting found a large quantity of chemicals inside a barrel at the home of the shooter.

Satchwell sentencing 

9. Richard Satchwell is due to be sentenced later today after being found guilty of murdering his wife Tina Satchwell in 2017.