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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start your day.
1. Daniel Kinahan has been arrested by police in the UAE, and the alleged organised crime boss will next undergo a process during which he has a right to contest his extradition to Ireland.
2. At this rate, no-one will believe there’s a heave against Taoiseach Micheál Martin unless he quits live on TV, writes Political Editor Christina Finn in our lead story.
3. Tehran has thretened to shut the Strait of Hormuz once more if the United States continues its blockade of Iranian ports, hours after Iran announced it had reopened the strategic waterway in the wake of a ceasefire in Lebanon.
4. President Catherine Connolly has landed at at a left-wing summit led by Trump’s fiercest EU critic, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
5. Are Ireland’s fuel relief packages the largest per capita in the EU? Shane Raymond did a deep dive.
6. Moya Brennan was remembered at her funeral as ‘First Lady of Celtic music’ as crowds thronged a church in the Donegal Gaeltacht.
7. The Census records for the almost 3m people living in Ireland on the night of 18 April, 1926 have been released.
8. Rather than holding a Eurosong contest as per prevous years, The Late Late Show instead held a competition last night to see which performer would earn a slot opening for Shania Twain at an upcoming gig.
8. This week, Paddy Comyn looks at the quiet death of the manual gearbox.
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