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The 9 at 9 Two fatal road traffic collisions, childcare costs and the National Guard cannot deploy in Chicago.

GOOD MORNING.

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

Childcare costs

1. The Morning Lead today is the experience of readers from across the country on the soaring cost of childcare.

Single-vehicle collision

2. A man in his late teens was killed in a single-vehicle road traffic collision at Scarteen Lower, Newmarket, Co Cork late last night.

Three-car collision

3. A man in his 40s was killed in a three-car collision on the N10 at Templemartin, Co Kilkenny shortly before 4.30pm yesterday afternoon.

National Guard

4. A US court has ruled that the hundreds of National Guard troops sent to Chicago can remain in Illinois but cannot be deployed.

Baggott Street Hospital

5. The HSE and the Department of Housing are at odds over whether the well-known Baggot Street Hospital in Dublin, which has now been put up for sale, was offered to the department

VAT cut

6. Paul O’Donoghues analysis of the new hospitality VAT cut suggests low prices will not be passed onto consumers.

Diane Keaton

7. American actress Diane Keaton has died at the age of 79

Fianna Fáil

8. Taoiseach Micheál Martin apologised to his party’s membership yesterday evening for “how things turned out” with its presidential candidate at Fianna Fáil’s annual Cairde dinner in Dublin.

Assault

9. A man in his 40s was hospitalised after an assault in Co Cork last night.

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