GOOD MORNING.

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

Byelections

1. For those who put their names forward in the Galway West and Dublin Central byelections, the hard work is done, and today they wait. 

Turnout

2. People cast their votes in the Galway West and Dublin Central byelections yesterday, with turnout nearing 50% in parts of each constituency.

Rescue mission

3. A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has killed at least 82 people, state media reported on Saturday, in one of the country’s biggest industrial disasters of recent years.

Negotiations

4. Tehran accused the US of “excessive demands”, Iranian media said on Saturday, as US media reports raised the prospect that Washington was mulling new strikes and leaders of the Islamic republic considered the latest peace proposal.

Courts

5. A former Mayo senior intercounty footballer was among four men to appear in court today charged in relation to an alleged serious assault which occurred in Castlebar last year.

Dublin bikes

6. The Dublin bikes scheme is set to come to an end next year, but Dublin City Council has plans to replace it with a new bike share service.

Vatican

7. Taoiseach Micheál Martin said he asked Pope Leo XIV that “every effort” be made to get religious orders to engage on redress for historical abuse.

White House

8. Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as US president Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, saying she needed to step away due to her husband’s cancer diagnosis.

Global Sumud Flotilla

9. Fourteen Irish citizens who were illegally detained in international waters by Israel while taking part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla are expected to return home today.