GOOD MORNING.

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

Middle East war

1. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have said that the country’s forces could fight an intense war for six months against the United States and Israel, as US President Donald Trump claimed that US forces are “just decimating” Iranian military sites..

Chartered flight lands in Dublin

2. There were relieved family reunions at Dublin Airport after the Irish Government’s first chartered flight from the Middle East touched down.

Tusla defunding service

3. Tusla is defunding a therapy service in Waterford and Wexford that supports child sexual abuse victims as a core element of their work, in addition to helping children transition into new care settings.

New rent rules

4. Paul O’Donoghue has taken a look at why Ireland’s new rent rules are angering small landlords but being welcomed by big firms like Ires REIT, which say they will allow rents to be reset to higher market rates.

Tyrrelstown fatal crash

5. A man in his 30s has died and two other people have been hospitalised following a single-vehicle crash in north Dublin yesterday evening.

Future of work

6. Eimer McAuley reports that union membership among Ireland’s tech workers is surging as layoffs, restructuring and fears over AI drive employees at major firms to organise.

Ireland v Netherlands

7. Ireland lost 2–1 to the Netherlands yesterday, leaving them without a point after their opening two matches of the World Cup qualifying campaign.

Local safety committees

8. Senior members of a new local safety committees in Waterford have criticised their counterparts from other counties over holding meetings behind closed doors.

Mexico violence

9. Hannah McCarthy reports that the killing of Mexican cartel leader El Mencho has sparked nationwide violence and raised doubts about whether targeting kingpins can curb the country’s powerful drug gangs.