LAST UPDATE | 23 Sep 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

Trump address

1. Donald Trump will meet Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy today at a UN summit where the US president is expected to offer a dark take on the future of the world body.

Presidential election

2. Independent Ireland is due to decide later this morning whether to lend its support to Maria Steen after meeting with her yesterday.

Jimmy Kimmel

3. US television host Jimmy Kimmel will see his late night talk show return to air today. Jimmy Kimmel Live! was suspended by Disney last week after Kimmel made a comment regarding the shooting of Charlie Kirk on air.

Copenhagen

4. Danish police said a “capable actor” was behind the disruption caused last night after unidentified drones in Copenhagen airspace caused flight diversions and other travel disruption to some 20,000 passengers.

Catherine Connolly

5. Presidential candidate Catherine Connolly said she wants to empower people to speak up against the status quo at her campaign launch in Dublin last night.

TikTok

6. Union representatives have accused TikTok of conducting multiple rounds of ‘quiet layoffs’ in its Irish operations since the firm announced it would be making 300 people redundant as part of an organisational restructuring in March. 

Palestine

7. Taoiseach Micheál Martin urged countries who have yet to recognise the state of Palestine “to give it serious consideration”. It’s after France became the latest country to recognise the State of Palestine at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York yesterday.

Arts scheme

8. A three-year Basic Income for the Arts scheme produced over €100m in socio-economic benefits, according to a new report published by the government today.

Trump claims

9. Trump has urged pregnant people not to take the pain medication Tylenol over an unproven link to autism, although medical professionals have long cited it as among the safest painkillers to take during pregnancy.