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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know to start the day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
5.Hundreds of patients died by suspected suicide shortly after being in contact with healthcare services in Ireland, internal HSE figures reveal.
6. Dublin MEP says the left grouping he’s part of ‘got enough’ concessions despite a split on the plan.
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.
8. Singer Chappell Roan has left the talent agency Wasserman, led by Casey Wasserman, after his name appeared in the Epstein files.
9.Kevin Purcell, a former insider, on what it’s really like to work inside the European Parliament.
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