NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a roundup of today’s headlines.

IRELAND

A Green Party TD has called on the government to make the 12th of July a public holiday. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

• The entire RTÉ Executive Board has been stood down and has been replaced with an “interim leadership team”.
• A former civilian employee of An Garda Síochána gave out information, including the locations of garda Covid-19 checkpoints, in return for cocaine, a court has heard.
• A Westmeath man who “opportunistically” took advantage of being left alone with a teenage girl after they had been drinking and raped her has been given a ten year sentence.
• Pat Kenny, his wife Kathy and their Dalkey neighbours have lost out in their long running planning battle to prevent a planned five storey nursing home getting the go-ahead.
• The parents of one of two Dublin school leavers who died on a Greek island holiday have paid tribute to their “fabulous son” at his funeral.
• People Before Profit TD Bríd Smith has announced that she will not be seeking re-election. 
• The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has found that the main provider of residential care for disabled adults and children in Co Mayo does not have the oversight and governance practices in place to ensure the wellbeing of residents. 
• A Green Party TD  has called on the Irish government to make the 12^th of July a public holiday.

INTERNATIONAL

Britain's King Charles III and US President Joe Biden stand as they wait in the Green Drawing room to meet with participants of the Climate Finance Mobilisation forum at Windsor Castle. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#JOE TAKES UK  US President Joe Biden dropped in for tea and climate change talks with Britain’s King Charles III this afternoon, after a garden meeting with UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak before a Nato leaders’ summit on Ukraine.

#BBC The teenager at the centre of the BBC controversy said nothing inappropriate or unlawful happened with the unnamed presenter and that the allegations are “rubbish”, their lawyer said in a letter to the broadcaster. 

#STABBING Larry Nassar, the former USA Gymnastics team doctor convicted of sexually assaulting hundreds of athletes, is in stable condition after being stabbed multiple times by another inmate, a prison union official said.

PARTING SHOT

The big-headed ''vinegar face'' talks with a resident of the nursing home in Spain. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

The big-headed ”vinegar face” talks with a resident of a nursing home in Spain during the 2023 San Fermín festival.

The big heads costume walk the streets of Pamplona during the festivities and often carry foam rubber rods with which they hit the children.

They are figures made between 1860 and 1941.

The ''zaldiko'' (horse-shaped head) speaks with several residents of the home for the elderly. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo