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The 9 at 9 At least eight Irish activists on Gaza-bound flotilla vessels boarded by Israeli forces, hundreds attend vigil for Co Louth family, and Zelenskyy to join Copenhagen summit

LAST UPDATE | 2 Oct 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

Gaza-bound flotilla

1. At least eight Irish activists were aboard a number of Gaza-bound flotilla vessels boarded by Israeli forces last night.

Drumgowna

2. Hundreds of people turned out for a candlelit vigil to remember a father, mother and their son who were murdered in Co Louth earlier this week.

Storm Amy

3. Status Orange wind warnings have now been issued for five counties along the west coast tomorrow ahead of the arrival of Storm Amy.

Moby bikes

4. Three thousand users of Dublin electric bike share scheme Moby have been issued with fines this year for abandoning or badly parking bikes, with four or five times as many warnings issued.

Copenhagen

5. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to join talks with leaders from across Europe in Copenhagen as the EU seeks to bolster Kyiv’s fight against Russia in the face of dwindling US support.

Philippines 

6. The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the central Philippines has risen to 72 as the search for the missing winds down.

RIP

7. British conservationist and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall died yesterday at the age of 91. She was the world’s leading expert on chimpanzee behaviour and a defender of the creature’s habitat.

Cork

8. Gardaí have issued a renewed appeal for help in identifying the skeletal remains of an elderly woman discovered during works on the Midleton to Youghal Greenway in east Cork.

‘Mushroom murderer’

9. Australian convicted murderder Erin Patterson will appeal her guilty verdict for killing three people with toxic mushrooms after a trial that sparked a global media frenzy.

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