NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Trade union leaders rejected the government’s offer of WRC talks on Tuesday in an attempt to halt Wednesday’s public sector strike.
- Former swimming coach George Gibney was sentenced to 15-and-a-half years in prison for sexually abusing four girls in the 1970s and 1980s.
- A life sentence for Riad Bouchaker, who tried to murder three children on Parnell Square in a knife attack, would not be appropriate because of his “intellectual disabilities”, his lawyers argued before the Central Criminal Court.
- Public sector employees working from home during scheduled strike action would be the “equivalent to passing the picket line”, unions representing workers in the sector said.
- The Special Criminal Court heard that Daniel Kinahan is to apply for bail.
- Contractors for the National Transport Authority (NTA) felled a number of mature trees in Phibsborough on Dublin’s northside.
INTERNATIONAL
#FRANCE: Major French supermarket chains said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security.
#ELECTRIC SHOCK: The European Union is going to cap imports of hybrid vehicles from China to 350,000 a year in an effort to protect the EU market from “unfair competition”.
#THE VATICAN: Pope Leo XIV announced he would have an operation “in the coming days” for a lump on his lung, saying it had been located “at a very early stage”.
PARTING SHOT
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