NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- The National Severe Weather and Flood Coordination Group met this evening as the country braces for the arrival of Storm Boelo over the bank holiday weekend.
- Gardaí launched an investigation after the body of a man was found on a golf course in Macroom, Co Cork.
- The Irish Council for Civil Liberties said the justice minister’s intervention to have a consent campaign video removed risks creating a “chilling effect” within society.
- A man at the centre of a sexual assault allegation in Citywest is set to be deported after he earlier learned that the charges against him were being dropped.
- Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said the party supports the ongoing money laundering investigation into a charity which is chaired by a party TD.
- A civil servant accused of leaking sensitive Irish government information to a hostile foreign power was sent forward for trial to the Special Criminal Court.
- Limerick private school Glenstal Abbey is to close its doors after just under a century of operation.
- Ireland’s Tidiest Town was crowned at today’s SuperValu Tidy Towns awards ceremony at Croke Park.
INTERNATIONAL
#OLESHKY: US first lady Melania Trump announced that she has brokered a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the war-ravaged city of Oleshky, where citizens are trapped and running out of food.
#DEFAMATION: A US judge issued a December deadline for Donald Trump to testify under oath in his $10 billion (€8.9 billion) defamation lawsuit against the BBC.
#THOMAS MARKLE SR: Meghan Markle said she is “deeply distressed” by accusations her father had a hoard of child sex abuse images.
PARTING SHOT
Tributes have poured in following the news that renowned Irish trad musician Dónal Lunny has died at the age of 79.
Here he is speaking to Patrick Kielty on the Late Late Show’s trad special in January, where he also became the first inductee into The Late Late Show Trad Music Hall of Fame.