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

IRELAND

Fire fighting helicopters taking part in a multi-agency exercise simulating a wildfire scenario near Turlough Hill in the Wicklow Mountains National Park. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• Verona Murphy said she “fully intends” to continue as Ceann Comhairle, after opposition parties published the text of a motion of no confidence in her.
•  With pressure mounting on her, what’s next for the Ceann Comhairle?
•  It is unlikely that Independent TD Michael Lowry will be sanctioned for the two-fingered gesture he made towards People Before Profit’s Paul Murphy in the Dáil yesterday.
• A man who made threats against Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald and Garda Commissioner Drew Harris was jailed for three-and-a-half years.
• There was a drop in murders, manslaughters and death by dangerous driving last year, but an increase in the number of reported sexual offences.
• A man in his 50s was seriously injured after an improvised bomb exploded at a house in Tallaght.
• A school seeking to hold disciplinary proceedings against a teacher who claims she was falsely identified as the woman at the centre of the ‘GAA catfish’ podcast agreed to pause the process for the next two weeks.
• The bitter High Court civil trials involving three co-founders of tech conference giant Web Summit may be settled tomorrow after talks between the parties came to a resolution today.
• Multiple people were arrested as part of a major investigation targeting the supply of drugs into Ireland from Spain.
• A major EU search and rescue organisation simulated forest fires across Co Wicklow today to test the State’s preparedness for large-scale wildfires.

INTERNATIONAL

French President Emmanuel Macron greeting his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of a working dinner in Paris. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#IRISH PEACEKEEPERS: An Israeli surveillance drone circled above Camp Shamrock in the hills of South Lebanon as Tánaiste Simon Harris toured the facility and met with Irish peacekeepers.

#THE GROUP CHAT: The Atlantic magazine published the entire text of a chat group among top US national security officials laying out plans of an imminent attack on Yemen that was mistakenly shared with a journalist.

#FRANCE: A woman accusing French actor Gerard Depardieu of sexual assault told a landmark trial in Paris that he groped her buttocks and her breasts several times in three separate incidents on a film set.

#JAIR BOLSONARO: Brazil’s supreme court ordered far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to stand trial on charges of plotting a coup after losing elections in 2022.

PARTING SHOT

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Spice bag, the takeaway delicacy so beloved throughout Ireland, has also been added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Eight Irish-English words are among 600 new words, phrases and senses to be added to the latest update of the OED. 

You can find out what the other words are here.