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

IRELAND

PTSB customers were repeatedly ‘timed out’ from their online banking accounts earlier today. Alamy, file Alamy, file

• Mental health patients are forced to compete for attention in emergency departments due to staff shortages, a report found
• Sinn Féin faces ban from the Trans Pride march after a statement from party TD
• Government unveiled its counter-disinformation strategy today
• PTSB online banking customers experienced technical issues today, which have been resolved
• Commencement notices were lodged for just 723 homes across Ireland last month
• Roderic O’Gorman announced he will stand for re-election as leader of the Green Party
• Derry fashion designer Jonathan Anderson was appointed as the artistic director of Dior menswear
• Sinn Féin is again the most popular party, a new poll found
• There were long traffic delays in Dublin after firefighters extinguished a bin lorry fire in Ballymount
• A proposed purchase of the Radisson Blu Dublin Airport by competitor hotel group is being investigated by CCPC

INTERNATIONAL

Canadian Prime Minister faces his main rival Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in a TV debate tonight. Alamy, file Alamy, file

#CANADA: Mark Carney has re-energised Canada’s Liberals and tonight faces his main rival in a TV debate, assistant news editor Rónán Duffy writes

#ITALY: Four people died after a cable car crash in Italy

#FLORIDA: At least six people were injured following a shooting at a US university campus

#WHITE HOUSE: US President Donald Trump said he is in ‘no rush’ to reach a deal with EU on tariffs as he met the Italian PM, Giorgia Meloni

#UKRAINE: Zelenskyy said Trump’s envoy is ‘spreading Russian narratives‘ as officials meet in Paris

PARTING SHOT

Private Klaidas Kulikauskas from the 126th Infantry Battalion during today's mission readiness exercise in the Glen of Imaal in Co Wicklow. Sasko Lazarov / © RollingNews.ie Sasko Lazarov / © RollingNews.ie / © RollingNews.ie

Members of the Irish Defence Forces completed a mission readiness exercise in Glen of Imaal, Co Wicklow ahead of their deployment in Lebanon with UN peacekeepers.

The exercise tests troops across a range of different scenarios, including live firing, casualty evacuations and counter IED operations. These measures ensure the troops are ready ahead of their peacekeeping mission in south Lebanon.

Sasko Lazarov from RollingNews captured this image of Private Klaidas Kulikauskas from the 126th Infantry Battalion during the exercise this afternoon in the region of the Wicklow Mountains.