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By: The Irish Times
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A morning news update from The Irish Times. Our top stories five days a week.


Produced in association with MSD.

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The Irish Times
Politics & Government
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  • Kinahan to be tried on single charge, school patronage, and the Michael Jackson biopic
    Apr 22 2026

    Daniel Kinahan is expected to face just one charge of directing organised crime when he’s tried at the Special Criminal Court.


    Hildegarde Naughton is the seventh education minister to tackle Catholic school divestment. Can she succeed where others have failed?


    Ed Power reminisces on Michael Jackson’s 1988 concert at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, and how hindsight shows us something much darker was happening at the time.


    Women in the US are being pushed from the frying pan into a five-alarm authoritarian fire, according to Margaret E Ward in her World of Work column today.


    A new exhibition at EPIC called No Irish Need Apply is telling the often painful story of Irish emigration to Britain, a story that stretches back more than 200 years.


    Presented by Aideen Finnegan

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    12 mins
  • Government spending; Daniel Kinahan; Hibernians, former UCD footballers in China
    Apr 21 2026

    Ministers will be warned today that tighter spending controls are required in their departments in order to stick within agreed budgets at a time of growing international threats to the Irish economy.


    The arrest of alleged cartel boss Daniel Kinahan in Dubai last week marks a significant new phase to efforts by An Garda Síochána to get him back in Ireland.


    A group from the Ancient Order of Hibernians speaks to The Irish Times on a visit to the North.


    Former footballers for University College Dublin retrace their steps in China where they toured in 1976.

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    9 mins
  • US war planes in Irish airspace; prison overcrowding; home heating costs; human connection in medicine
    Apr 20 2026

    The government underreported the number of US military aircraft flying over Irish airspace, an Irish Times investigation has found.


    A “crisis” response group to overcrowding in prisons is to meet next week as records show the Director General of the Irish Prison Service sought more urgent action to tackle “unprecedented” overcrowding.


    Rising fuel prices are hitting people across the country, but for some households, heating their home has become a luxury rather than a basic need.


    Medical students at Trinity College Dublin will be assessed on their capacity for love and human connection from next year. It’s the first medical school in Ireland to treat it as a formal graduate outcome.

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    8 mins
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