GOOD MORNING.

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

Dublin Airport 

1. Minister for Transport Darragh O’Brien will seek Cabinet approval this morning to lift the passenger cap that is in place at Dublin Airport. 

Pensions protest

2. The Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) will be protesting outside the Dáil today over “unacceptable delays” for Ministerial approval for agreed pension increases for around 20,000 An Post and Eir pensioners.

Artists’ supports 

3. The timeline for a new, permanent scheme to financially support artists will be brought to Cabinet by Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O’Donovan later today.

Heart attacks

4.Smokers who have a major heart attack do so 11 years earlier than non-smokers, and for women the gap widens to 13 years.

HSE mental health interventions

5.Hundreds of patients died by suspected suicide shortly after being in contact with healthcare services in Ireland, internal HSE figures reveal.

EU housing plans

6. Dublin MEP says the left grouping he’s part of ‘got enough’ concessions despite a split on the plan.

State of democracty

7. Anti-graft watchdog Transparency International (TI) warned Tuesday of worsening corruption in democracies worldwide and said the United States had slid to the lowest-ever score on its 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index.

Chappel Roan quits agency 

8. Singer Chappell Roan has left the talent agency Wasserman, led by Casey Wasserman, after his name appeared in the Epstein files.

Inner-working of the EU 

9.Kevin Purcell, a former insider, on what it’s really like to work inside the European Parliament.