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

IRELAND

Fridays for Future Activists together with other climate groups march past Leinster House, calling on the Government to endorse the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• An Bord Pleanála rejected an application for the construction of the Shannon liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in north Kerry. 
• Several Irish people are still being treated in a number of locations across Europe in the wake of the Bordeaux botulism outbreak.  
• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will seek to meet with the European Commission to discuss the nitrates derogation following mounting pressure from farmers.
• A woman was hospitalised with “life threatening injuries” after a serious collision in Cork. 
• Tiktok were fired €345 million by Ireland’s data watchdog today following an investigation into how the platform processes children’s data.
• PSNI located a suspected gang leader, who has been on the run since August, in Drumcondra in Co Dublin today.
• Eamon Ryan said he believes the Green Party is the “most effective” junior coalition leader the state has ever had, at the party’s think-in in Waterford.
• 15 people have been arrested, in relation to an incident in Galway last weekend where two men were assaulted, during a Garda operation today.
• A group representing enlisted military personnel has cautiously welcomed news that a private medical care scheme will be rolled out for the Defence Forces.
• Over 500 people protested in Cork City last night over after a gay bar rebranded themselves for a university Freshers’ week.

INTERNATIONAL

Rubiales in court earlier today. PA / AP PA / AP / AP

#UK: Child serial killer Lucy Letby formally lodged a bid to challenge her convictions at the UK Court of Appeal.

#SPAIN The former head of the Spanish football federation Luis Rubiales has been given a restraining order and is prohibited from contacting the player he kissed on the lips last month at the Women’s World Cup. 

#FRANCE Apple must now update their iPhone 12 device in France after regulators raised concerns over electromagnetic radiation emitted by the devices and halted the sales of the devices this week.

#POLAND The Polish government decided to extend its domestic embargo on Ukrainian grain, shortly after the EU lifted an import ban for five member states, in the interest of the nation’s farmers.

PARTING SHOT

The Sanctuary Swimmers swimming in Dublin. Swim Ireland Swim Ireland

An solidarity-through-swimming programme, a collaboration between Sanctuary Runners and Swim Ireland, brought 19-different nationalities into the sea this summer.

Each of the five Sanctuary Swimmer groups consisted of 18 to 22 people and included local Irish people and others who had moved from other countries. Amongst these were many refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants.

The aim of the initiative was to use open sea swimming to bring people of different backgrounds together and the programme was a huge success.

Participating swimmers came from Ireland, Algeria, Ghana, Ukraine, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Pakistan, India, Spain, Germany, Nigeria, England, Afghanistan, Morocco, Congo DRC, the Netherlands, USA, Ethiopia and China.