GOOD MORNING.

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

Dart improvements delayed

1. A major extension to the Dart network for West Dublin and Kildare has been delayed for at least four years.

Extreme flooding

2. Floods in Thailand have killed more than 160 people, the government said Saturday, with the majority in one of the provinces bordering Malaysia.

More attacks on Ukraine

3. Ukraine’s capital faced a barage of attacks overnight, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy removed his powerful chief of staff and top negotiator following a raid on Andriy Yermak’s house as part of a sweeping corruption probe.

Molly Malone

4. Flowerbeds have been installed to project the Molly Malone statue from further damage by people attempting to ‘grope’ the sculpture’s breasts.

Leinster V Dragons

5. Leo Cullen probably didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as he saw his side concede 18 penalties and pick up three yellow cards, yet snaffle a bonus-point win courtesy of a 25-metre gallop in the 78th minute by the giant South African lock RG Snyman.

Murder trial

6. The daughter of a cocaine addict who admits killing but denies murdering his brother-in-law has told his trial that her father would think there were people in the walls who were “coming to get him”# when he took the drug and wouldn’t recognise his own family.

Katie Taylor

7. Olympic and world champion boxer Katie Taylor said she’s enjoying her “quiet life” in Connecticut with her husband since taking a break from boxing earlier this year.

Gardaí on trial

8. Gardaí have “Common Law powers” entitling them to use their own “discretion” when dealing with the public, a trial of four gardaí and a retired superintendent accused of unlawfully interfering in pending or potential road traffic offences, heard, Friday.

Airbus

9. European plane-maker Airbus has warned of potential travel disruption as it upgrades some 6,000 operational A320 aircraft, after an incident on a JetBlue flight last month.