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The 9 at 9 Today’s Dublin Racing Festival postponed, weekend weather and a US government shutdown…
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.
Weather
1. Severe weather and flooding may impact essential services over weekend, emergency group warns.
Leopardstown
2. Today’s Dublin Racing Festival card has been postponed until Monday following 17mm of rainfall on Leopardstown racecourse overnight.
Washington
3. The US government entered a partial shutdown Saturday as a midnight funding deadline passed without Congress approving a 2026 budget, though disruption was expected to be limited with the House set to move early next week to ratify a Senate-backed deal.
Public transport
4. There are major disruptions to train timetables this weekend due to the Bank Holiday weekend.
Neutrality
5. Taking part in European defence initiatives and increasing the capability of a country’s security services does not impact on a State’s neutral status, the Austrian ambassador to Dublin has said.
Catherine O’Hara
6. Actor Catherine O’Hara – who starred in Schitt’s Creek and Home Alone – has died aged 71.
Epstein files
7. Messages released in the latest batch of the Jeffrey Epstein files talk of Irish people’s “horrible asses” that the writer says were “from the potato famine”.
Palestine
8. The view from Palestine: Is Trump’s plan a runner?
Travel
9. If public transport was free, would you use it more?
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