LAST UPDATE | 26 Nov 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

Spending

1. The government is spending money in the Budget “like there’s no tomorrow” despite the “significant and predictable budgetary pressures” that will arise from supporting an ageing population and addressing climate change.

Immigration reform

2. Plans to tightern Ireland’s migration rules are due to go to Cabinet today. 

Mica

3. Government to allow for side-by-side building in some cases, as amended defective blocks bill goes to Cabinet.

Ukraine deal

4. Donald Trump says he is sending his envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week as the US president seeks to close out a deal to end the war in Ukraine.

HP layoffs

5. Computer and printer maker HP has announced a sweeping restructuring plan that will eliminate about 10 percent of its workforce globally as the company pivots toward artificial intelligence to boost efficiency.

Psychotherapist standards

6. Bodies representing psychotherapists will tell TDs and Senators today that they are massively opposed to proposed new standards for their profession. 

Wifi contracts

7. Consumers are to get new rights to allow them to quit their mobile and broadband contracts for free if their provider announces plans to increase their bills.

Louvre heist

8. French authorities have arrested four more people in the probe into last month’s spectacular daylight theft of imperial jewels from the Louvre museum, the top Paris prosecutor said.

Loans

9. The Credit Union loan book has reached its largest size on record, overtaking even the heights seen during the Celtic Tiger, according to new figures from the Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU).