At least 53 people died when a fire burned through a shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo yesterday. Many of the victims were children and about a dozen people are still missing after the blaze in the industrial city of about half a million people, over 2,000 miles east of Moscow.

Gardaí have confirmed that the body of missing teenager Elisha Gault was recovered from the River Suir. The 14 year old had been missing since St. Patrick's Day.

Tánaiste Simon Coveney now supports abortion up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy in a dramatic change of heart ahead of the Eighth Amendment referendum. The Foreign Affairs Minister held a series of meetings with clinicians in recent weeks aimed at establishing safeguards for the administration of abortion pills.

The Irish Times reports this morning that Irish companies are moving beyond their “deer in headlights” phase when it comes to the prospect of Brexit. Over the weekend it was also announced that Britain's Labour Party is preparing to forge a cross-party alliance to guarantee there will be no infrastructure on the border between Ireland and the UK after Brexit.