LAST UPDATE | 27 Mar

GOOD MORNING.

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

Ireland’s defeat

1. Another Irish play-off defeat and one made all the worse by Ireland’s complicity in their own heartbreak. They took a two-goal lead tonight in Prague but then allowed it crumble away, dragged to extra time by a late equaliser and then beaten on penalties.  

Iran vs US

2. Iran’s military has warned that hotels housing US soldiers across the region would be targets in its war with the United States and Israel.

Cost of Living

3. Irish consumer sentiment suffered a substantial fall in March reaching its weakest level in three years.

Thank You

4. Troy Parrot’s post-match message to Irish fans who supported the national team before last night’s defeat was “thank you, stick with us”. 

Screen Time

5. Parents will be told to limit screen time for children under five to no more than an hour a day under new government advice, as Britain’s Prime Minister vows parents will not be left to battle screens alone.

Unredacted

6. Survivors of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have sued the US government and Google over victims’ identities being mistakenly revealed in a trove of documents published online by the Justice Department.

Cuckoo

7. The world’s largest exhibition of cuckoo clocks is set to open today at Waterford’s Irish Museum of Time.

Signed, sealed, delivered

8. US paper currency will soon bear Donald Trump’s signature, in a move that would be a first for a sitting American president.

Creeslough

9. Donegal County Council has today granted planning permission for a new petrol station next to the site of the Creeslough tragedy in which ten people were killed.