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LAST UPDATE | 23 Mar
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.
1. Iran has said that the Strait of Hormuz, crucial to oil and other exports, would be “completely closed” immediately if the US follows up on President Donald Trump’s threat to attack its power plants.
2. In our Morning Lead, Niall O’Connor reports that gardaí deployed recently-acquired anti-drone equipment for the first time during the recent Keir Starmer visit to Cork.
3. A plane carrying dozens of people collided with a fire truck late Sunday on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport, killing the pilot and co-pilot and forcing a halt to flights, authorities and US media reported.
4. A woman remains in a critical condition in hospital after an assault involving multiple people on a roadway in Tipperary on Saturday .
5. Mass evictions may become more common over the coming months as larger landlords adapt to the government’s sweeping changes to the rental sector, according to a housing expert.
6. The amount of heat trapped by the Earth reached record levels in 2025, with the consequences of such warming feared to last for thousands of years, the UN has warned.
7. Kate O’Connor has won a bronze medal in the pentathlon at the world indoor championships in Poland.
8. Leftists retained control of France’s three largest cities while the far right failed to take any major urban centres in Sunday’s municipal elections, closely watched for an indication of next year’s presidential race.
9. Tributes continue to pour in for Michael Lyster, the long-time presenter of The Sunday Game on RTÉ, who died yesterday morning at the age of 71.
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