NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- The funeral of four members of the same family killed in an arson attack on their Waterford home has heard that their lives were taken “in a senseless act of sheer violence”.
- Justice minister Jim O’Callaghan has said the public is “entitled to an answer” as to why the only cases adjourned at the Central Criminal Court today, as a result of the solicitors’ strike, were cases involving an allegation of rape.
- Three alleged members of a car theft gang were arrested in Dublin on Sunday evening after a chase involving garda patrol cars, a helicopter and the armed support unit.
- Public sector unions have said “all action remains available” if they do not get a satisfactory resolution in pay negotiations with the government.
- The government dropped plans to tell households to be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours during emergencies because of concerns it could prompt anxiety about why the advice was being issued.
- A viable pipe bomb was found alongside two loaded firearms during a garda search on open land in Drogheda, Co Louth, on Sunday.
- A man in his 60s has died following a collision involving a truck and a car in Athgarvan, Co Wicklow.
- A man who died following a stabbing in Dublin on Sunday has been named as 38-year-old Jamie Bailey, originally from Limerick.
- Four people have been arrested after An Garda Síochána seized two viable pipe bombs while carrying out a search of an apartment in Tallaght, Dublin 24 today.
- The Central Bank has issued warnings about two unauthorised firms advertising short-term car insurance to Irish drivers.
- Farmed salmon are being fed on poultry, with chicken-fed salmon likely to become common on supermarket shelves in the coming months.
INTERNATIONAL
#UNREST: France announced partial curfews in Paris and other cities on Monday after weekend demonstrations over soaring prices degenerated into some of the worst street violence in recent years.
#WEST BANK: Ten people have been arrested in Palestine following attacks by Israeli settlers on European politicians and a Washington Post photographer over the weekend, Israel’s police in the illegally occupied West Bank said on Monday morning.
#WANGARATTA: Australian independent MP Helen Haines was deliberately struck by a car on Monday and suffered “critical injuries”, authorities said, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described as an attack.
#SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT: Russell Brand was grinning “like a clown” after he sexually assaulted a woman in the middle of a crowded Soho bar, a court has heard.
PARTING SHOT
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across France on Saturday to protest over rising living costs and struggling public services.
The demonstrations were accompanied by serious violence in several cities, with shops looted and public buildings set alight. In the city of Limoges, a fire devastated the historic town hall.
Amid the chaos, a couple were recorded having a drink by the Arc de Triomphe. The video has since gone viral.
A couple were spotted enjoying a drink on a café terrace near the Arc de Triomphe on Saturday, close to where some of the main rioting took place in central Paris. https://t.co/NX6YEjseX6
— CBS News (@CBSNews) October 19, 2026