NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

This weekend the RTÉ Concert Orchestra came together to play live for the first time since the lockdown. Tony Kinlan Tony Kinlan

• Health officials announced no new deaths and 12 more confirmed cases of Covid in Ireland.
• It emerged that 104 people have had their Covid support payments stopped due to to international travel.
• Paschal Donohoe said he understands people’s anger at a government decision to increase the salary of a “super junior” minister in Cabinet by more than €16,000.
• Leo Varadkar said schools will have more teachers and will be subject to rigorous cleaning standards when children return in September.
• A man in his 20s was arrested in Laois after gardaí seized €161k worth of cocaine.
• We FactCheck claims that children will be taught how to masturbate as part of their education from September.
• A man in his 50s died after a car crash in Wicklow. 

INTERNATIONAL 

A man jumps from a wave as Hurricane Hanna begins to make landfall in Corpus Christi, Texas. Eric Gay Eric Gay

#UK: British holidaymakers returning from Spain will have to quarantine for 14 days after Covid second wave fears convinced ministers to remove the European country from the UK’s safe list.

#FRANCE: Gone With The Wind actress and Hollywood great Dame Olivia de Havilland has died aged 104.

#USA: Protesters in California set fire to a courthouse, damaged a police station and assaulted officers after a peaceful demonstration intensified last night, police in Oakland have said.

PARTING SHOT 

US TV host Regis Philbin passed away this weekend. 

Philbin had a glittering career but was probably best known for hosting the US version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

So, it’s the perfect excuse to break out this video which is probably one of the greatest videos out there. 

https://www.thejournal.ie/courthouse-fire-oakland-protests-5160125-Jul2020/