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

IRELAND

Miriam O’Callaghan and Alan Shortt pictured with 16-year-old Sean Barnes from Wexford who avails of LauraLynn services, at the Mansion House as LauraLynn launch their 2023 Heroes Ball. Andres Poveda Andres Poveda

• The Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland has said the sharp increase in the cost of living over the past year has resulted in an “erosion of living standards”.
• It may take up to “four to five weeks” before the government can provide new accommodation for asylum seekers, the Government warned today.
• The prosecution case against Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch stands or falls on whether the Special Criminal Court can believe the evidence of the “proven and admitted liar and perjurer” Jonathan Dowdall, a barrister has told the three-judge, non-jury court.
• Enoch Burke left the area of the school where he formerly taught after standing outside of it for hours.
• A senior High Court judge has welcomed the resolution of a significant number of actions brought against the HSE over the assessment of children with special needs.
• Thousands of health workers in the North are to take to the picket lines in a row over pay and conditions.
• A man who sexually assaulted a child after he posed as a talent scout for young actors has been ordered to have no contact with children for ten years.

INTERNATIONAL

Firefighter Mose Demasi looks up at the Harper Square residential building after he and others fought a multi-floor fire at the high-rise in the Kenwood neighbourhood of Chicago, Charles Rex Arbogast Charles Rex Arbogast

#USA: A man suspected of of killing seven fellow farmworkers and wounding another in Half Moon Bay, California is expected to appear in court today to face multiple murder charges.

#UKRAINE:  The US said it will deliver 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine adding to a growing fleet of Western armour being assembled for an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian invasion.

#ROMANIA: Andrew Tate’s phones and laptops are being searched as Romanian prosecutors look for evidence as part of an organised crime and human trafficking probe, an official has said.

PARTING SHOT

And now to end on a sad note.

The co-creator of Sesame Street, the beloved children’s educational TV series, has died aged 93.

Lloyd Morrisett’s death was announced by Sesame Workshop, the non-profit he helped establish under the name the Children’s Television Workshop.

No cause of death was given.

Mr Morrisett and Joan Ganz Cooney worked with Harvard University developmental psychologist Gerald Lesser to build the show’s unique approach to teaching that now reaches 120 million children.

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