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

IRELAND

DublinTown in association with Dublin City Council is creating a celebration of Dublin City's Purple Flag status Sasko Lazarov Sasko Lazarov

• The High Court has made an order that CAB can seize a luxury mansion in west Dublin that is “effectively owned” by cartel boss Daniel Kinahan.
• The funeral services for two victims of the explosion at the service station in Creeslough, Co Donegal last Friday have taken place today. 
• Energy Minister Eamon Ryan has formally submitted a planning application for a emergency power plant in north Dublin.
• A meeting between Garda representative bodies and Commissioner Drew Harris has ended without a resolution to the dispute over proposed garda rosters. 
• Pharmaceutical company Novartis has announced plans to cut up to 400 jobs in Dublin.
• Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has suggested a winter eviction ban could lead to higher homelessness levels after it ends.
• Jailed teacher Enoch Burke claims that he was defamed in a newspaper article published about last weekend.
• An Oireachtas Committee has recommended a ban be implemented on owning dogs with cropped ears. 
• Thousands of students staged a walk-out from lectures this morning in protest against the rising cost of living and its effects on young people.

INTERNATIONAL

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz tugs at his shirt collar as he is seated at the defense table before the verdict in his sentencing trial at the Broward County Courthouse Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#UKRAINE: Ukraine has reset its power grid after mass Russian strikes on energy facilities.

#PARKLAND: Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison without parole for the fatal shooting of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.

#NURSE: A nurse accused of murdering seven babies and trying to kill 10 more wrote “I am evil I did this” in capital letters on a piece of paper found after a police search of her house, a court in England has heard.

#SLOVAKIA: A “radicalised” teenager has shot dead two men at an LGBTQ bar in Slovakia’s capital Bratislava, according to Prime Minister Eduard Heger.

PARTING SHOT

Russian forces launched a new wave of deadly strikes on Ukraine earlier this week, including on the country’s capital Kyiv.

It came just days after an important bridge between Russia and Crimea was struck. 

On this week’s episode of The Journal’s Explainer podcast, Senator and retired army officer Tom Clonan chats about what Putin’s next steps may be in his invasion of Ukraine. 

https://soundcloud.com/the-explainer-podcast/what-will-putins-next-steps-be-in-his-invasion-of-ukraine