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LAST UPDATE | 3 hrs ago
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know to start the day.
1. The weather is not going to improve any time soon, according to Met Éireann.
Operational forecaster Liz Walsh told The Journal that while the heavy type of rain that has fallen in Dublin and the east of the country might transfer to the west and northwest, “I’m not seeing any big fine spell happening any time soon”.
2. The Data Protection Commission has opened a formal inquiry into social media platform X over the creation and sharing of sexualised and non-consensual images through its AI chatbot Grok.
3. A search of land in Co Wicklow as part of the investigation into the disappearance and murders of Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob in the 1990s will resume today.
4. Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has accused Donald Trump of orchestrating a “cover-up” over files related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein while insisting that she and her husband Bill Clinton “have nothing to hide”.
5. Back home, DoneDeal is launching an app within AI chatbot ChatGPT that will let users search for cars by typing conversational prompts instead of using DoneDeal’s website search.
6. Elsewhere, Russian officials have arrived in the Swiss city of Geneva for talks with US and Ukrainian teams aimed at ending the years-long conflict in Ukraine.
7. Cold case killer Noel Long has launched a bid to overturn his conviction for murdering vulnerable Cork woman Nora Sheehan 44 years ago.
8. Tributes have been paid to Oscar-winning actor Robert Duvall, who has died at the age of 95.
9. The Journal speaks to Paul Wilson, the Wexford native who is one of a team of people tasked with making the Stelvio slopes competition ready for the Winter Olympics in Italy.
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