LAST UPDATE | 5 Apr 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

US tariffs implemented

1. Trump’s widest-ranging tariffs to date took effect this morning, with global stock markets plunging deeper into the red in response to the imposition of import taxes

Tánaiste trip to Washington

2. Tánaiste Simon Harris is to travel to Washington DC next week, where he is expected to attend trade meetings with the US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick

Missile strike in Ukraine

3. A Russian missile strike on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rig killed 18 people, including nine children, Ukrainian officials have said

Fatal collision

4. A man in his 20s has died following a collision in Oranmore, Co Galway yesterday

Mick O’Dwyer funeral

5. The funeral of Mick O’Dwyer, former Kerry footballer and manager, is due to take place in Waterville, Co Kerry this morning

Smartphone use warning

6. Minister for Children Norma Foley has urged parents to implement a ban on smartphones in their children’s bedrooms

Prince Andrew reputation

7. Many in the British royal household believe that Prince Andrew’s reputation was “irrecoverable” following his Newsnight interview, Andrew’s former senior adviser told a tribunal

TikTok ban delayed

8. Donald Trump has said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the US for another 75 days

‘Grace’ case publication

9. Minister for Children Norma Foley has cast doubt over the date by which the report into the ‘Grace’ case will be made public. 

The Grace case concerns a young woman with profound intellectual disabilities who was left in a foster home in the Waterford area for almost 20 years despite a succession of sexual and physical abuse allegations