LAST UPDATE | 6 Aug 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

Back-to-school costs

1. Money that parents have been able to save on back-to-school costs through the government’s free schoolbooks scheme is being swallowed up by the cost of schools requiring students to have electronic devices like a laptop or tablet, according to a new survey of parents.

Gaza

2. Twenty people were killed when an aid truck overturned near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Gaza’s ministry said today.

Death in Cork City

3. A post-mortem is set to be carried out tomorrow at Cork University Hospital after the body of a man was found in a property at Barrack View off Cathedral Walk in Cork city this afternoon.

Come fly with me

4. July was the busiest ever month at both Cork and Dublin airports.

Bowel cancer

5. The daughter of a Waterford woman who died from bowel cancer calls for a lower screening age in hopes of saving lives.

Russia and Ukraine

6. US envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow on Wednesday, state media reported, where he will meet with Russian leadership as President Donald Trump’s deadline to impose fresh sanctions over the war in Ukraine looms.

Early birds

7. Irish diners are eating dinner earlier than ever, with a significant increase in reservations recorded at traditional early bird menu times.

Pharma tariffs

8. Tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals into the US could go as high as 250%, President Donald Trump has said.

Demographic change

9. Ireland’s young population means the State is spending less on pensions and healthcare than other European countries, according to the budgetary watchdog.