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LAST UPDATE | 13 Nov 2025
GOOD MORNING. Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.
1. A new housing plan is being unveiled by government today, aiming to tackle vacancy, expand social housing and deliver 90,000 starter homes.
It follows a year of missed targets and record homelessness figures.
2. The US House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday to end the nation’s longest government shutdown, which President Donald Trump later signed to end a 43-day funding lapse.
The Senate has already passed the measure, which Trump has called a “very big victory”.
3. In our Morning Lead, The Journal Investigates has looked into the food, items and advertising that candidates expensed during the last general election.
Among the more unique expenses are ChatGPT premium, a €400 bar tab and €150 worth of novelty biscuits.
4. Ireland has failed to achieve its emissions reductions target set under the first carbon budget cycle, according to the Climate Change Advisory Council.
In its review, the Council said the country will overshoot targets by about 10 million tonnes of emissions.
5. US Democrats have released emails in which paedophile Jeffrey Epstein suggested that US President Donald Trump was aware of the disgraced financier’s sexual abuse and definitely “knew about the girls.”
6. Dublin will host seven Euro 2028 games, it has been confirmed.
Five group games, one round of 16 fixture and one quarter-final will take place at the Aviva Stadium.
7. The Tánaiste and the Minister for Health have agreed to bring a memo to Cabinet recommending a statutory public model of inquiry into the care of children with scoliosis and spina bifida.
It comes after Simon Harris and Jennifer Carroll MacNeill held a meeting with the parents of 9-year-old Harvey Sherratt at Government Buildings yesterday afternoon.
8. A third man was arrested in Co Laois yesterday as part of an investigation into cross-border terrorism.
9. Police in Northern Ireland are currently dealing with a security alert in Derry city after two suspect devices were discovered in a residential area.
Around two dozen homes have been evacuated as a precaution.
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