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LAST UPDATE | 13 Jan
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news to know as you start your day.
1. During a visit to Egypt, Foreign Affairs Minister Helen McEntee has announced the Irish government is providing €42 million in funding towards various support agencies working to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
2. US president Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on any country doing business with Iran, ramping up pressure as a rights group estimated a crackdown on protests has killed at least 648 people.
3. Campaigners hit back at a judge’s claim that cyclists have “become a nightmare” in Dublin.
4. Enterprise Minister Peter Burke will this morning bring a major plan to build more data centres across the country to Cabinet for sign off.
5. Data centres are just one issue on the agenda as politicians return to Leinster House. There’s also refugee reunification, homelessness and a Mercosur debate that we can look forward to.
6.A pregnant woman who died following a two-car collision in Co Antrim yesterday afternoon has been named as Cathrene Kith Quiñones Singco.
7. French far-right leader Marine Le Pen goes to court today to appeal an embezzlement conviction, with her 2027 presidential ambitions hanging in the balance.
8. Beauty retailer Sephora UK has announced it will open its first store on the island of Ireland next month.
9. Cork native Conor Hourihane criticised the “disrespectful” backheel of Dominik Szoboszlai as his Barnsley side fell to Liverpool in the FA Cup at Anfield.
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