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The 9 at 9 Here’s all the news to know as you start your day.

GOOD MORNING. Here’s all the news to know as you start your day.

1. AI

A growing number of people are using AI chatbots as therapists, with one woman in America tragically taking her own life after discussing her desire to do so with ChatGPT.

CORU, the regulator of health professionals in Ireland, “strongly advise” people to only access therapy from a qualified professional.

People in Ireland have opened up about using chatbots for mental health care due to its accessibility. ChatGPT suggests that in Ireland, questions relating to mental health are the most common type it receives.

2. Cancer treatment

The family of a woman who was diagnosed with cancer and died less than three months later with no curative or palliative treatment want answers and reform of the HSE.

Marian Quinlan “absolutely loved life” but died three months after being diagnosed with what she was told was treatable lung cancer.

She received no treatment – curative or palliative – before she died.

3. Kneecap

Kneecap are to perform at a festival outside of Paris today despite objections in France over Mo Chara’s ongoing court case.

Local authorities have withdrawn subsidies for the Rock en Seine music festival after organisers decided to keep Kneecap on the programme.

4. Donegal

A young boy who died Friday evening in a tragic incident at his family home in Co Donegal has been named locally.

Joey Forker, aged nine, died following an accident involving machinery on land at his family’s home on the outskirts of Dungloe.

Joey, a pupil at St Crone’s National School in the town, was helping his dad clear land when the accident happened.

5. President Higgins

Amid much talk of who will be the next president, the current president is reflecting on his career and looking forward to reading, spending time with his grandchildren, and the ‘great move’.

6. Drugs seizure

A man has been arrested by gardaí after Revenue offices seized suspected herbal cannabis to the value of over €3m.

Revenue officers found around 150kg of the drug during a search of a truck which had disembarked a ferry at Rosslare Europort.

Gardaí arrested a man aged in his 50s following the seizure of the drugs.

7. PetroNeft

Business reporter Paul O’Donoghue takes a look inside the demise of a mysterious oil company that was once the best performing stock in Ireland.

8. Omniplex

Film buffs who pay a monthly subscription to one of Ireland’s largest cinema chains are charged additional fees to book their tickets online and reserve a seat outside the first four rows of the theatre.

9. U-turn

A passenger suffering from delirium tried to break into the cockpit of an Easyjet flight from France to Portugal yesterday, forcing the jet to return to Lyon airport.

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