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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news that you need to start your day.
1. Thousands could be without power across the island of Ireland, as a clean-up effort that is expected to last well into next week resumes.
2. A high-level meeting between military chiefs and naval officers has taken place in Dublin to discuss the ongoing crisis in the Naval Service, including incidents of vessels going to sea with non-functioning guns.
3. A man who died after a tree fell on his car during Storm Éowyn has been named locally as 20-year-old Kacper Dudek.
4. Hamas is to release four Israeli women soldiers held hostage since its 7 October, 2023 attack, under a truce deal in the Gaza war that is also expected to see a second group of Palestinian prisoners freed.
5. The United States, the world’s biggest donor, has frozen virtually all foreign aid, making exceptions only for emergency food, and military funding for Israel and Egypt.
6. A US group’s ‘hurricane hunter’ plane has been based in Shannon Airport in recent days to study the strong winds caused by severe weather events such as Storm Éowyn.
7. Vera Pauw has been appointed head coach of the United Arab Emirates women’s team.
8. A marine buoy that had come adrift during Storm Bert in November has washed up on Reenroe beach in Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry today during Storm Éowyn.
9. Speed limits on many Irish roads will be reduced from 7 February this year as part of a government strategy that aims to bring down the number of fatalities and injuries caused by traffic collisions.
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