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

Road deaths

1. Road deaths are going down – but more cyclists and pedestrians are being killed. Why?

Ukraine 

2. Russia launched a “massive attack” against Ukraine, killing three people and wounding dozens more.

Heptathlon

3. Ireland’s Kate O’Connor was in fourth position following the long jump phase of the women’s heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships, with the javelin and 800m still to go in Tokyo.

Crash

4. A woman was airlifted to hospital following a three-vehicle collision in Latteragh, Nenagh, Co Tipperary yesterday.

USA

5. Texas senator Ted Cruz, an ally of US President Donald Trump, has said he believes it’s dangerous for a government to put itself in a position to say what speech it may or may not like.

Asylum seekers

6. Families in the international protection system are locked in a standoff with the Department of Justice over plans to transfer them to far-flung centres across the country.

Books

7. The authors of the bestselling Oh My God, What A Complete Aisling series are releasing a new novel next year. 

Putin’s big show

8. The Soviet era cousin of Eurovision, once thought long-buried in the archives of Cold War kitsch, is being resurrected tonight in Moscow, courtesy of Vladimir Putin.

The Áras

9. Sinn Féin is set to announce its support for a candidate in the presidential race today.