LAST UPDATE | 22 May 2025

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day. 

1. #ISRAEL AND GAZA; Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Saar has blamed “incitement” by European leaders for the killing of two of his country’s embassy workers in the United States – while crucial aid was finally let into the besieged territory of Gaza.

2. #KNEECAP Rap group Kneecap have released a defiant statement condemning what they call a “carnival of distraction” after one of its members was charged with a terror offence in Britain.

3. #CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT: Richard Satchwell was “obsessed” with and “possessive” of his wife Tina, her half-sister told his murder trial today.

4. #ICE: Tánaiste Simon Harris said he is he is carrying out enquiries to find out whether a US flight that landed in Shannon was carrying migrants.

5. #RESPECT THE CHAIR; Independent Ireland TD Ken O’Flynn responded to details of his attempts to purchase a La-Z-Boy chair for his Leinster House office, saying that he was unaware that it was a “brand” and that he just requested what “everyone else is provided with”.