LAST UPDATE | 16 Jun 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

Tuam

1. The process of excavating children’s unmarked burials at the site of a former mother and baby institution is commencing in Tuam this morning, years after their existence was uncovered.

Iran-Israel war 

2. Iran and Israel continued to exchange fire overnight following an Israeli attack against its arch foe last Friday. 

Suspected assassin caught 

3. Police in Minnesota have caught the suspected killer of a Democratic politician and her husband, US media reported overnight, ending a nearly two-day manhunt.

Litter 

4. The number of areas around the country deemed littered is at its lowest level in five years, according to the group Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL). 

Corporation tax

5. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has called on the Government to end the “over-dependence” on corporation tax receipts ahead of the today’s National Economic Dialogue. 

E-scooter crash 

6. A man in his 20s is in a critical condition in hospital after a serious road traffic incident in Dublin. 

Card payments 

7. Last month broke records for the most card transactions in a month, with just over 80m in May, AIB has said.

‘Remigration’ 

8. Us President Donald Trump has urged enforcement agencies to carry out the largest deportation programme in the country’s history while describing it using the term “remigration”, a policy long championed by white nationalists and extremist groups in Europe. 

US Open 

9. JJ Spaun completed a remarkable mid-round comeback to win a chaotic, rain-delayed US Open at Oakmont, finishing birdie-birdie to win his first major championship title.