GOOD MORNING. 

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

School holidays

1. There have been calls for ‘understanding’ between parents and schools as some primary schools closed this week to use discretionary days off.

Iran

2. A US fighter jet has disabled two Iranian-flagged tankers, prompting retaliatory attacks and rattling a shaky truce as Donald Trump said he was awaiting Tehran’s reply to his latest proposal to end the war.

Local elections

3. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer remains under pressure this morning after Labour suffered heavy election losses across the UK – here’s how the newspapers have reacted. 

Catholic Church

4. As Pope Leo XIV prepared to celebrate a year in office this week, Vatican News pointedly noted that the pontiff has made over 400 appeals for peace during this time – something that has placed him on an unlikely collision course with Donald Trump.

The running men

5. Two brothers are racing through 32 marathons to raise over €1 million for inherited dementia following the death of their mother. Our reporter Andrew Walsh spoke to them.

Sari Khoury

6. Hannah McCarthy meets a Palestinian winemaker who is fighting to preserve his identity in an increasingly dangerous occupied West Bank.

Clare

7. A judge has imposed a three year and nine-month prison term on a 65-year-old Co Clare man for two sexual assaults carried out on a 12-year-old girl 19 years ago.

Ukraine

8. Donald Trump announced a three-day ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia starting today, saying he hoped it could lead to long-term deal to end Moscow’s war.

Seanfhocal eile

9. The office of the Language Commissioner has confirmed that an investigation is underway into an incorrect version of an Irish proverb that forms part of the design of a €127,000 bicycle shelter at University Hospital Kerry in Tralee.