LAST UPDATE | 22 Apr

GOOD MORNING.

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

Housing crisis

1. There are vastly differing views in the construction industry when it comes to what the US-Israeli war on Iran means for housing. 

War

2. Iran has yet to respond after US President Donald Trump said he was going to extend the ceasefire between the two countries.

Civil service

3. The Foórsa trade union has written to the Department of Public Expenditure calling for increased access to remote working for civil service staff due to the impact of the fuel crisis and continued congestion on Irish roads.

Complaints 

4. Hamnet, The Housemaid and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple were among some of the films whose age classifications have prompted complaints from cinema-goers so far this year.

Children’s hospital 

5. Health Ministester Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has said she can’t give an overall completion date for the long-delayed National Children’s Hospital “that I can stand over”.

Mexico shooter 

6. The gunman behind Monday’s shooting at Mexico’s famed Teotihuacan pyramids, drew inspiration from pre-Hispanic sacrifices and the notorious 1999 US shooting at Columbine High School, according to investigators.

Dublin task force 

7. Top civil servant Robert Watt will be paid more than €280,000 to lead the Dublin City Task Force. 

Courts

8. The Minister for Justice has said that character reference letters submitted by TDs for sentencing hearings in court cases are “inappropriate”.  

Condoms

9. The world’s largest condom manufacturer has said it will raise prices due to the impacts of the US-Israeli war against Iran.