LAST UPDATE | 25 Nov 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

Michael Shine

1. The government is set to announce a ‘scoping exercise’ to examine how best to deal with the serious issues raised by victims of former doctor and child sex abuser Michael Shine.

Zelenskyy’s Ireland visit

2. Planning is continuing  for the visit by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Ireland next week, but recent developments mean the government does not know if it will actually go ahead. 

Rent hikes 

3. Dublin City Council has narrowly voted to pass rent increases for council and HAP tenants following a heated meeting on the issue where 31 councillors voted to pass the increase and 30 voted against it.

Russia strikes Ukraine

4. Russia rained missiles and drones overnight on Kyiv, killing six people, Ukrainian authorities said.

Femicide

5. Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members internationally – one death every 10 minutes, according to the United Nations (UN) who released their annual femicide report today.

Sewage dumping

6. Two Stormont departments and Northern Ireland’s utility regulator are being investigated over untreated sewage discharges into Belfast Lough.

Name change

7. Antrim Council has agreed to start the process to change the name of a street which was named after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Israeli army

8. Three Israeli generals have been sacked and disciplinary action has been taken against several senior officers over their failure to prevent the Hamas-led attack on the country in October 2023. 

Rustling

9. Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after 18 cattle were stolen from a farm in Skibbereen, Co Cork.