LAST UPDATE | 21 Oct 2024

GOOD MORNING.

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

Storm Ashley

1. Around 16,000 households have been left without power today after Storm Ashley.

Not my King

2. Britain’s King Charles has been berated by an Australian senator who told him “you are not my King” and demanded a treaty between Australia’s First Nations and its government.

Agreements with UAE

3. Ireland is to sign bilateral treaties with the United Arab Emirates on extradition and mutual legal assistance, following government approval last Friday.

Irish in America

4. Irish Americans living in Georgia, one of the key swing states in the US, say the build up to next month’s election is unlike anything they’ve experienced before.

Middle East

5. Unifil has said an Israeli “army bulldozer deliberately had demolished an observation tower and perimeter fence of a UN position”.

Election Speculation

6. The three coalition leaders are meeting tonight where they are expected to discuss the date for the general election, which has been mooted for some time before 2025.

Stacey Callan

7. Over €24,000 HAS been raised in an online fundraiser for an Irish woman who is in a coma in a Turkish hospital after a fall.

Campaign trail

8. Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump handed out fries at a McDonald’s on Sunday before staging an impromptu news conference, answering questions through the drive-thru window.

Hit and run

9.  A man has been arrested over a hit and run incident in Clondalkin, Co Dublin over the weekend.