LAST UPDATE | 24 Mar 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

Prescription row

1. The government is telling the public that they can renew six-month prescriptions despite the fact the legislation was never agreed with one of the country’s largest chemist unions.

Exhumation 

2. Remains found in a grave in Co Monaghan are not those of Joe Lynskey, one of The Disappeared, investigators have confirmed.

Ukraine war talks 

3. US and Russian officials have began talks in Saudi Arabia on a possible ceasefire in the three-year Ukraine war, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.

Depardieu 

4. French actor Gerard Depardieu, who has faced a string of assault and rape allegations, goes on trial in Paris today accused of sexually abusing two women during a film shoot in 2021.

New job

5. Former Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has landed a job with US-based public relations company, Penta Group, as a member of its Global Advisory Board, the company announced this morning.

Courts

6. A businessman arrested by gardaí investigating the seizure of €10.6m worth of cocaine has appeared before a special sitting of Gorey District Court.

Lisa Thompson

7. A 42-year-old woman employed by the HSE will go on trial today accused of impeding the investigation into the murder of mother-of-two Lisa Thompson and perverting the course of justice.

Soccer 

8. Ireland retained their League B status last night after overcoming Bulgaria over two legs in their Nations League playoff.

Palestine 

9.  Israeli air force jets struck a hospital in Khan Yunis in the south of Gaza last night.