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

IRELAND

Tickets for next year's Electric Picnic music festival in Laois sold out today in one hour. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

• Energy company SSE Airtricity announced today that they are to reduce residential electricity and gas prices by 12% and 10% respectively, from 1 November.
• A new report recommended that Dublin City Council add 300 new “bike bunkers” to the city by 2026, to incentivise bike travel in the centre.
• All tickets to next year’s Electric Picnic music festival were “snapped up in an hour“, just one week after this year’s festival.
• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar appealed to the British Government that they do not enact the Troubles Legacy Bill, adding that the Irish government is still “seriously considering” taking a case to the European Court on Human Rights.
• The government may ratchet up the new vacant homes tax, targeting 60,000 homes across the country, depending on how it enters force in November.
• Grenades and plastic explosives were found amongst other weapons in a policing operation in Derry City yesterday, while petrol bombs and stones were thrown at officers.
• Planning permission for renovations to St Stephen’s Green shopping centre in Dublin reveal plans for added retail and food spaces along with a two-screen cinema, located in the basement.
• A book of remembrance has been opened in a church in Co Wexford for Paul and Mary Reilly, who died in a road crash in Rome, Italy yesterday.
• A new policing strategy for Dublin City centre, announced by Minister Helen McEntee today, will plan to target prolific young offenders and roll out community wardens.
• A woman in her 50s, who was airlifted to hospital following an incident on Lough Derg in County Clare yesterday evening, has passed away.

INTERNATIONAL

The Prince and Princess of Wales attend a service at St Davids Cathedral in Wales, to commemorate the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died one year ago today. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#NEW YORK The United Nations today published its first official progress report on the 2015 Paris Agreement where it warned that the World is falling dangerously short of meeting climate goals.

#UK The United Kingdom today marked the first anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s death.

#UKRAINE Billionaire Elon Musk says he blocked a Ukrainian attack on Russia’s Black Sea fleet after he declined a request from Kyiv to activate internet access in the Black Sea near Moscow-annexed Crimea.

#AUSTRALIA Three men have been jailed in Brisbane, Australia for the manslaughter of Irish teenager, Cian English (19), who died after he fell from an apartment balcony during an armed robbery.

PARTING SHOT

Minister Cathrine Martin and the launch of 'Cula4', the new children's TV channel that broadcasts fully as Gaeilge. Cula4 Cula4

TG4 made history today with the launch of the first-ever Irish language children’s channel.

The channel, which began at 4pm today, promises to bring 14 hours of daily children’s content as Gaeilge to households on the free-to-air channel.

The channel will host news bulletins for young people during the week and schools will be able to tune in from their classrooms from Tuesday to Friday at 1:30pm.

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