LAST UPDATE | 19 Apr 2025

GOOD MORNING.

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

Investigation

1. A series of unusual and possibly unfounded planning objections to veterinary practices in Dublin, Meath and Kildare has raised questions about who is doing them – and why.

The Journal Investigates reviewed planning objections for veterinary practices over the past seven years and found a pattern of objections to new practices.

Electric buses 

2. Buses lying idle, waiting for charging infrastructure, staff training and testing.

These are among the various issues reported in recent years about the electric bus rollout, with fleets of buses stalled for many months, and longer in some cases.

Town of Softies?

3. The road signs will be updated to reflect the proper Irish name for Dublin’s newest town, Dublin City Council has confirmed.

Signposts for the Ballyboggan Road, located near Glasnevin, will be changed after plans to develop a new town in the area, announced this week, contradicted the Irish translations on the signs.

Ukraine peace talks

4. Trump has warned Tthat Washington would “take a pass” on talks to end the Ukraine war within days unless there is rapid progress from Moscow and Kyiv.

EU military power

5. An Irish army officer deployed in Hungary with the EU Battlegroup has said he and his fellow troops are part of the “European Union’s projection of military power”. 

Attack on Houthi rebels 

6. US strikes on a Yemeni fuel port killed at least 80 people, Huuthi rebels say, in the deadliest attack of Washington’s 15-month campaign against the Iran-backed group.

National Therapy Service

7. ⁠Minister for Education Helen McEntee has confirmed that she will introduce a National Therapy Service in education, beginning in special schools later in the next academic year.

Grace Case

8. Another whistleblower in the Grace case has criticised the long-awaited report published this week for its “inaccessible” language, saying that she has found her asking herself “what was it all for”, 16 years after she first made a protected disclosure about Grace’s care.

Road death

9. The family of Ronan Wilson have formally asked the Director of Public Prosecutions to appeal the sentence that was handed down to the driver who struck and killed the nine-year-old.