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GOOD MORNING

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

GOOD MORNING. 

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

1. Political poll

Support for Sinn Féin has dropped to a level almost on par with Fine Gael, putting the two parties neck and neck as the government faces a decision on when in the next year to call a general election

2. Ukraine

The death toll from a Russian strike on a hardware superstore in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has risen to 11 people.

3. Irish prisons

Prison bosses are in discussions with the Defence Forces to reopen a military prison in The Curragh to ease overcrowding in Irish jails. 

4. Nature

In a new documentary film airing this evening, one man is on a mission to record the call of every bird species in Ireland

5. Arrested

A young man was arrested during an investigation into criminal damage caused by fire at a property in Dublin this week.

6. Lucan Lodge

Families of residents of a Dublin nursing home will hold a protest today against people being moved from the home after its registration was cancelled.

7. Ireland-UK relationship

A Fianna Fáil senator slammed comments made by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a visit to Belfast about his relationship with the Irish government.

8. Urban sprawl

An estimate of  ‘over €100,000 per home’ is trying to put a figure on the cost of Ireland’s urban sprawl.

9. Georgia

A Georgian journalist targeted by masked men was told she faces ‘revenge’ unless she stops working.

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