LAST UPDATE | 3 Sep 2025

GOOD MORNING. 

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

Simon Harris

1. A woman arrested yesterday over a serious threat made online against Tánaiste Simon Harris and his family has been released without charge.

Ukraine

2. In a political show of force this week European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen indicated that she wanted member state troops deployed in a Ukrainian peacekeeping role. But behind closed doors in the Irish Department of Defence, sources have said civil servants are not so sure about the likelihood of such a mission.

China

3. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin flanked Xi Jinping at a massive parade in Beijing on Wednesday, capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding by the Chinese president and his allies against the West.

Donabate

4. Gardaí are expected to continue searches in Donabate today as it investigates the disappearance of a young boy, who is presumed dead.

Climate change

5. This summer was the warmest on record for Ireland, according to Met Éireann.

Croke Park parking

6. Dublin City Council’s parking enforcement department is considering a pilot scheme to deter “increasingly problematic” match day parking on residential streets near Croke Park.

ChatGPT

7. Artificial Intelligence firm OpenAI said yesterday it would add parental controls to its chatbot ChatGPT, a week after an American couple whose teenage son died by suicide raised concerns about the platform.

Epstein Files

8. A US House of Representatives committee released a first batch of documents on Tuesday from the investigation into notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a case that has become a political lightning rod for the Trump administration.

Fare play

9. All children under the age of nine can now travel on public transport for free.