LAST UPDATE | 2 Nov 2025

GOOD MORNING. HERE’S all the news you need to know to start the day.

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

England stabbing

1. Nine people have suffered life-threatening injuries in a stabbing attack on a train in England.

A man is believed to have been shot with a taser by police after attacking people on a high speed train once it had left Peterborough station in Cambridgeshire in the east of the country.

Job layoffs

2. Following announcements this week that jobs in the likes of Amazon and Fastway were under threat, The Journal asked its readers whether they had suffered through layoffs over the past year.

And in response we heard of the range of emotions experienced after they lost the work they had held for years.

Drogheda Ipas fire

3. The Green Party has accused the Government of “ignoring far-right violence” in the aftermath of a suspected arson attack at a at an international protection centre housing families seeking asylum

Windsor scandal fallout

4. Pressure is building on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to give evidence before a powerful US Congressional committee about his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

New poll

5. Sinn Féin is now the most popular party in the country and Micheál Martin’s leadership ratings continue to fall, according to new polling from the Sunday Independent and Ireland Thinks.

N7 fatal crash

6. A section of the N7 in Co Kildare – between junction 8 and junction 7 eastbound – remains closed following a fatal incident that saw a pedestrian die last night.

Minimum wage rise

7. A rise in the minimum wage could ruffle prices, but the effect is likely smaller than you think, according to our business columnist Paul O’Donoghue.

Miriam O’Callaghan

8.In an exclusive extract from her memoir, Miriam O’Callaghan recalls an atmosphere of dread at RTÉ on the day the Tubridy scandal broke.

Rugby

9. Ireland lost out to the All Blacks at Soldier Field in Chicago last night – you can read back on how it happened here.