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

IRELAND

The search for a young boy missing presumed dead in Donabate, Co Dublin, continued today. © RollingNews.ie © RollingNews.ie

• Fine Gael has instructed its councillors across the country to oppose the nomination of Independent candidates for the presidential election. 
• A man in his 70s has died after getting into difficulty in the water in north county Dublin this morning.
• Gardaí are investigating a second threat made against Tánaiste Simon Harris’s family in the space of a week.
• A man has been airlifted to hospital after he was injured in a fall while hiking on Mullaghmore Mountain in Co Clare this afternoon.
• An Irish man who was caught trying to enter Australia with a fake passport and later escaped immigration detention tying bedsheets together has been jailed for 12 months.

INTERNATIONAL

Police arrest protesters in Parliament Square during a Defend Our Juries demonstration in support of Palestine Action. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#GAZA CITY: An Israeli strike flattened a high-rise in Gaza City today – the second in as many days – after the military warned people to flee south to a “humanitarian zone” ahead of a planned offensive to capture the area.

#DEPARTMENT OF WAR: US President Donald Trump has said he will host the 2026 G20 summit at his own golf resort in Miami. It comes as he signed an executive order renaming the Department of Defence as the Department of War.

#THE VATICAN: In a first for the Vatican, more than a thousand LGBTQ Catholics and their supporters are holding a pilgrimage in Rome this weekend.

PARTING SHOT

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IRELAND HAS OPENED its World Cup qualifying campaign against Hungary at the Aviva Stadium this evening. 

You can follow along with all the events of the match live here.