LAST UPDATE | 12 Apr 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

The Morning Lead

1. Almost all religious orders in Ireland have millions of Euros in both cash and assets, but the majority haven’t offered redress to survivors of mother and baby homes. 

Christine Finn reports that out of the eight religious bodies with historical involvement in mother and baby institutions, only two have offered financial contributions to the survivor compensation scheme.

Courts

2. A man who kicked his girlfriend twice in the face, and then slashed the throat of a 32-year-old man who later died in hospital, has been jailed for eight years.

You can’t sit with us

3. Businesses on Drury Street in Dublin’s city centre say the large numbers of people drinking in the sunshine on the street are causing huge problems for them. 

Masters

4. Justin Rose clung to a one-stroke lead over Bryson DeChambeau after Friday’s second round of the 89th Masters while Rory McIlroy leaped into contention with a stunning back-nine charge at Augusta National.

Housing V Tourism

5. Enterprise minister Peter Burke is “determined” to bring the short-term let legislation to Cabinet next week in a bid to free up housing stock. 

India and Nepal

6. At least 69 people were killed this week in unusually intense thunderstorms across eastern India’s Bihar state and in neighbouring Nepal, officials said today. 

For the record

7. A new vinyl record pressing plant has opened in Clane, Co Kildare, as vinyl sales in Ireland continue to rise.

Trump administration

8. An immigration judge has ruled that a pro-Palestinian student protester, a US permanent resident detained by the Trump administration, can be deported, his lawyer said.

TV 

9. Graham Norton will join Doctor Who for an episode themed around the Eurovision Song Contest.