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LAST UPDATE | 25 Mar
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start the day.
In today’s main story, reporter Diarmuid Pepper highlights the unprecedented move by Ireland’s psychiatrists, who today are calling for CAMHS to be ‘urgently’ overhauled.
The sayd said the current governance of CAMHS has “serious deficits”, leading to a failure to manage risk, fund and recruit key staff and to provide standardised models of care across the country.
Simon Harris has spoken to US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick to “exchange views” with each other. The vocal critic of Ireland’s tax and trade systems is a keen supporter of tariffs to reset a so-called trade imbalance between the countries.
The Tánaiste welcomed the phone call and said he would be open to continuing conversations with the US politician in the future.
Ministers will today be asked to approve cuts to the Ukrainian accommodation payment, issued to those who have opened their homes to people fleeing the war-torn country.
The sum will drop from €800 per month to €600 per month. The scheme will be extended, however, to 31 March 2026 in order to be in concert with the temporary protection status of Ukrainians in the EU.
In a bizarre turn of events, a high-profile US journalist was inadvertently included in a group chat which included highly classified American war plans against the Yemen-based Houthi rebels.
Trump had announced strikes in Yemen on 15 March, but editor of The Atlantic magazine Jeffrey Goldberg revealed he had hours of advance notice through the group chat, which included high-profile members of the US cabinet, including VP JD Vance.
The price inflation of houses in Ireland is at an eight-year high, according to the latest quarterly house price report from property website Daft.ie.
Typical prices across the country for a home was €346,080. This is 11.6% higher than a year ago, and 35% higher than at the beginning of the Covid pandemic.
Defence Minister Simon Harris is travelling to Lebanon today where he will voice government’s “frustration and concern” with the lack of progress in bringing those who murdered Irish private Seán Rooney to justice.
Harris is also meeting a number of troops, at locations in south Lebanon which has suffered heavy Israeli bombing in response to rockets being fired into northern Israel over the weekend. Hezbollah have denied they are responsible.
A meeting between Russian and US officials on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine ended after 12 hours of negotiations in Saudi Arabia yesterday, Russian state media reported, with a joint statement expected to be published today.
With Ukrainian negotiators waiting nearby, a day after they sat down with the US team, the Americans and Russians met in Riyadh with a Black Sea ceasefire top of the agenda.
There may be disruptions in the Dáil today following the latest development in the speaking rights row.
Five opposition parties met yesterday to agree to oppose and protest a government proposal to change speaking time arrangements in order to create a new slot for government backbenchers and a group of independents.
Ryanair has announced a subscription service, allowing customers to reserve seats and exclusive deals. The €79 annual ‘prime’ membership will be available to the first 250,000 customers that sign up.
Monthly offers will be awarded to these members, giving them exclusive sales of seats.
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