Here’s all the news you need to know as you start your day.1. In our lead story this morning, Christina Finn reports that childcare fees will fall for the vast majority of parents under a “big movement” in September’s budget.He said: “Often those who pay a lot for childcare are also the ones paying the rent and the mortgages and commuting. So it’s a particular group that need particular help, I think when it comes to the cost of living.”2.
A flare-up in fighting around the Russian-controlled nuclear power station – with both sides blaming each other for attacks – has raised the spectre of a disaster worse than in Chernobyl.4. A man in a shooting in a shopping centre in Sweden last night has died, police said, as a woman hurt in the same attack remained in hospital.
It had been reported last year that costs to repair defects at the Crescent Apartment Building in Parkwest were expected to total €5 million.