The 9 at 9: Sunday

GOOD MORNING.

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

Fuel protests

1. 1. A major policing operation saw hundreds of gardaí end the blockade of Dublin’s O’Connell Street overnight.

Political response

2. A rare emergency Cabinet meeting has been called as the Government prepares to sign off on measures it hopes will bring the remaining protests to an end.

Roads update

3. Here’s a rundown on which roads have been cleared for traffic and which remain under blockade.

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Sports funding

4. Moving away from the fuel protests for a moment, Megan O’Kane looks into recent claims in the Dáil that golf clubs apply for sports capital funding at three times the rate of boxing clubs.

Hungary elections

5. Hungarians go to the polls in parliamentary elections that could end Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 16 years in power.

McIlroy’s Masters

6. Rory McIlroy is tied for the lead of the Masters after erratic third round.

Office space

7. Beware talk of Dublin’s office market recovery, writes Paul O’Donoghue, as multi-million price drops show it isn’t here yet.

Fuel protest analysis

8. Back to the fuel crisis, and our political editor Christina Finn looks at how Micheál Martin, Simon Harris and Jim O’Callaghan failed to take the temperature of the nation when responding to this week’s protests.

Sitdown Sunday

9. Here’s a roundup of some of the best reads of the past seven days, including one that answers the all important question: can you get a refund for a haunted house?

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