Iranian negotiators will stop exchanging messages with the U.S. through intermediaries, and Tehran will move to fully close the Strait of Hormuz, in retaliation for ongoing ceasefire violations, Iran’s state-affiliated news outlet Tasnim said Monday. Read more: cnb.cx/4o1hP1n

Iran is poised to fire far more long-range missiles at Israel and other Middle Eastern nations after rapidly digging out its buried arsenals – an effort that highlights the limits to US bombing strategy, experts said. https://cnn.it/4dPNTjX

Holocaust survivor and campaigner Tomi Reichental has died aged 90

At the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the front line is completely overwhelmed. Our chief Africa correspondent, Declan Walsh, describes what he saw in the Ebola ward at Mongbwalu General Hospital. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...

Micheál Martin said yesterday sanctioning Aughinish would hurt Europe more then it hurts Russia. However new figures obtained by The Irish Times show that this year 83% (200,619 tonnes) of alumina exports went to Russia. The amount exported to EU countries was 149 tonnes (0.6%)

⚠️ A first Ebola case has been confirmed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province, in an area under the Rwanda-backed M23 militia's control, the armed group's spokesman said Thursday. ➡️ u.afp.com/SRr2

Irish Independent: Big Tech firms accused of ‘AI washing’ as Meta cuts 350 jobs #TomorrowsPapersToday

I briefly mentioned in the post below that this is a record heat dome. Let me illustrate: Red is where the ridge of upper level high pressure / heat dome is “record intensity” for May.

Delighted for Aston Villa

A brief [updated] history of presidential oil market jawbones through the Hormuz crisis.

Thursday press preview #TomorrowsPapersToday

“The energy crisis may just be starting”!

The risk of global spread of the Ebola outbreak is low, but high at national and regional levels in Congo and Uganda, WHO says.

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... My GP surgery got an AI in to answer the phones. At first it seemed to deal with the problem of the 8 o’clock rush for appointments but then patients revolted.

Renewable generation and discharging storage equalled 49% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 64% at 14:15. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 30% of demand. 0% of generation was exported, 19% of demand was met by imports.

This is going to hit a lot of already weakened news sites very hard. The big ones will survive and the strategy will flip from clicks to mentions/citations in summaries. Individual newsletters aren’t really reliant on it for traffic. But that middle tier of sites will collapse even more

Rent rises lead front pages #TomorrowsPapersToday

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate advances bill aimed at ending Iran war after GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, defeated in primary, switches to support it.

Arsenal Premier League champions

Financial Times: Treasury asks supermarkets to cap prices on staple foods #TomorrowsPapersToday

RTE director general Kevin Bakhurst says he has assured the government there are no other cases of presenters being classified as producers within the broadcaster - and that he feels RTÉ has ‘paid a price for its transparency’ by voluntarily disclosing how Derek Mooney was labelled in previous years

CNBC: 30-year Treasury yield tops 5.18%, reaching the highest level in nearly 19 years

Ireland now has its first terrestrial radio station dedicated entirely to classical music.

🚨130 deaths from Ebola in DR Congo amid WHO concern over the scale and speed of the outbreak 🦠

Pleased to write in today’s Irish Independent about the scale of online gambling on Irish elections, the prospect of money laundering, and how overseas crypto millionaires now have an incentive to tamper in our election campaigns 👇

Been trying to think what global equity markets remind me of for the last few weeks and I’ve finally got it. It’s like they are playing a version of The Game where the aim is to forget about the Strait of Hormuz for as long as possible. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gam...

Irish Independent: First 200 dodgy-box owners targeted by Sky legal letters #TomorrowsPapersToday

BREAKING: The two suspects in a shooting at a San Diego mosque are dead, a police source says.

Tuesday press preview #TomorrowsPapersToday

CNN reports security guard killed during shooting at Islamic centre in San Diego.

Breaking News: A security guard was killed in a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the mosque’s leader said. This is a developing story.

Trump says he’s postponing ‘scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow’ at Middle East leaders’ request

Musk loses case against OpenAI and Sam Altman

Department of Foreign Affairs says it is monitoring the Ebola outbreak and continues to advise against travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

RTÉ: Britain’s King Charles invited to Ireland for a state visit next year by President Connolly

By the time officials confirmed new Ebola infections last week in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the total number of suspected cases meant the outbreak was already one of the largest on record. Several challenges and missteps delayed detection reut.rs/4eUlawI

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Helen McEntee, is with us live in studio tonight on #MondayGR to discuss this and more. We’re live at the slight later time of 10:15pm on Virgin Media One, and online on Virgin Media Play.

CPJ urges the European Commission to not invite the Taliban to Brussels. Doing so would legitimize a regime responsible for severe repression and censorship and strengthen the Taliban's public relations as an international player.

Sir Keir Starmer asked if he will set out a timetable to stand down if Andy Burnham wins the Makerfield by-election: “I’m not going to do that”.

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump voluntarily dismissed his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, according to a Monday court filing. @reuters.com

Amnesty says global executions at a 40-year high, pushed in part by a “staggering” increase in Iran’s use of death penalty

Oil price touching $110 an hour before Wall St. opens

Nigel Farage’s claim that he paid for a £1.4mn house with his fee from a reality TV show has been challenged by corporate accounts that appear to show that the income remained on his company’s balance sheet after the property purchase. www.ft.com/content/88ce...

Met Éireann forecasts temperatures in Ireland to rise into the 20s later this week

Oil rising after Trump warns ‘Clock is Ticking’ for Iran

CNBC: Ryanair CFO warns weaker European carriers may not survive jet fuel crunch www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/r...

Monday’s Irish Times #TomorrowsPapersToday