The 9 at 9: Monday

The 9 at 9 Councils begin taking Áras bids, fatal crash on Conor Pass and Australian mushroom killer sentenced

LAST UPDATE | 8 Sep 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

1. Twelve potential candidates seeking to make it to the ballot for the upcoming presidential election are to make their first presentations to Kerry County Council this afternoon

2. Elsewhere in the Áras race, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald confirmed this morning that she will not be running for president

3. A man has died following a collision involving two motorcycles on the Conor Pass, also known as An Chonair, in Co Kerry yesterday afternoon

4. Early next year, customers of Bank of Ireland, AIB and PTSB will be able to avail of in-app payment services on a new service called Zippay

5. A major study has provided fresh evidence that e-cigarettes are hooking a new generation of Irish people on nicotine, rather than helping them quit smoking

6. A judge has sentenced Australian triple-murderer Erin Patterson to life in prison for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms

7. Delivering “permanent” relief for working families by “cutting their costs” is a priority for Fine Gael in the upcoming Budget, party leader and Tánaiste Simon Harris is set to tell his parliamentary party in Mullingar today

8. US President Donald Trump threatened to impose more sanctions on Russia, after the Kremlin unleashed its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine

9. Irish Rail has unveiled plans to develop a new station in the Kylemore area of Dublin, on the Heuston Commuter line