The 8 at 8: Saturday

GOOD MORNING.

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

Retrofitting

1. Just one in six homes are likely to qualify for new windows and doors energy efficiency grants, the agency administering the scheme has indicated.

There has been massive interest in the grants of up to €4,800 for new windows and doors since they were announced by the government in January. 

Grace’s law

2. A ban on the use of scramblers in public places is set to come into force next week.

The legislation will be named after Grace Lynch, a 16-year-old who died on 25 January after an incident involving one of the bikes in Finglas.

Tiger Woods

3. Golfer Tiger Woods was arrested and charged with driving under the influence after a car crash in Florida.

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Woods, who was uninjured in the accident, was detained after the car he was driving clipped a truck and flipped over.

The Kennedys

4. Netflix released a behind-the-scenes image of Michael Fassbender as Joe Kennedy Sr ahead of a new series on the streaming service on the Kennedys.

Joe Kennedy Sr was the patriarch of the Kennedy family and was a leading member of the Democrat Party.

Cookstown

5. A garda investigation was launched after a man’s body was discovered in a residence in Dublin.

Shortly after 1.10pm yesterday afternoon, gardaí and emergency services responded to reports of a man found unresponsive at a residence in Cookstown, Dublin 24.

Kenneally inquiry

6. The final report of the Commission of Investigation examining the years of sexual abuse perpetrated by Bill Kenneally and how complaints about his crimes were handled by authorities has been completed, The Journal can reveal.

Special mission

7. The Irish Air Corps flew a special mission to Beirut to fly in senior military leadership personnel and to extract a team of engineers who have been stuck in Lebanon since the IDF launched its invasion of the south of the country. 

On the ground in Gaza

8. More than 7,000 Palestinians have been reported missing in Gaza since the start of the war in October 2023.

Thousands are believed to be buried beneath an estimated 50 million tonnes of rubble—debris the United Nations says could take more than 15 years to remove—while others are thought to be in Israeli detention without information on their whereabouts.

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