GOOD MORNING.

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

Modular homes 

1. Call them cabins, modular homes or sheds, but the government’s proposal this week to scrap standard planning rules around modular builds marks its latest attempt to ease Ireland’s accommodation crisis.

Flotilla

2. A new aid flotilla is setting sail for Gaza this weekend with 21 Irish people on board. 

1926 Census

3. The Journal’s readers told us about their experiences of poring over the 1926 Census. 

Palestine

4. Palestinians are voting in local elections today in the West Bank and Gaza.

Renting rules

5.  The rental regulator has issued a statement looking to clarify what should happen when people move into an already existing house-share under the government’s new rental rules.

Negotiations 

6. A US delegation is expected in Pakistan today for mediated talks with Iran about ending the war. 

Decolonisation 

7. A campaign has been launched to bring the Irish language names of Ireland’s cities and towns back into common use, in place of the English versions.

Noah Donohoe

8. It is “most likely” that Noah Donohoe entered a water tunnel through the bars of a culvert entrance close to where he was last seen, an inquest into his death has heard.

Epstein

9. The US Department of Justice’s internal watchdog said that it is reviewing the department’s compliance with the law mandating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.