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

Dublin, Ireland. Concert goers at the Forbidden Fruit music festival in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham today. Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• A Dublin civil servant is accused of leaking confidential government information to ‘handlers’ in a foreign intelligence service.
• Mourners gathered for the funeral of Alex Coughlan in Ballyfermot this morning.
• Sinn Féin will bring forward a Dáil motion asking the government to support calls from the Irish football community for the Football Association of Ireland to boycott Ireland’s Uefa Nations League fixtures against Israel later this year. 
• A man in his 20s died following a single vehicle collision in Finglas in the early hours of this morning.
• Protesters in Dublin demanded “justice” for Yves Sakila, a Congolese man who died after he was restrained by security guards.

INTERNATIONAL

United States Army National Guard military police stand guard near the construction site of the UFC Octagon on the South Lawn of the White House. © Joey Sussman / ZUMA Press Wire © Joey Sussman / ZUMA Press Wire / ZUMA Press Wire

#DONALD TRUMP: A US judge on Friday ruled that the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts had been illegally renamed after president Donald Trump and that his name must be taken down.

#LAOS: Rescuers in Laos said they have safely evacuated four villagers trapped in a flooded cave for 10 days, the day after another was successfully extracted.

PARTING SHOT

JUST ONCE IN a very blue moon, there’s a chance to witness a pretty rare lunar event. 

Yes, a so-called blue moon will be visible over Ireland overnight. 

The earliest moonrise from Ireland tonight is 9.30pm and on Sunday it is at 10.35pm. 

Weather conditions for viewing it are not the worst – there’s a mix of scattered showers and clearer spells forecast.