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

Dublin City Council opened a book of condolences for Sister Stanislaus Kennedy at the Mansion House in Dublin today. Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• A woman who pleaded guilty to killing a four-year-old boy, but denies the child’s murder, will go on trial at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow. 
• The Criminal Assets Bureau seized assets and money totalling €17.052m and sold 20 properties taken from criminals last year.
• Left-wing opposition parties rounded on Tánaiste Simon Harris over his comments on migration recently.
• A new report projected that living standards in Ireland will decelerate throughout the 2030s and 2040s, while public spending will face “sustained pressure” through to 2050 and beyond.
• A former IT worker was jailed for 15 months for two acts of animal cruelty linked to protests against asylum seeker housing.
• The largest ever survey conducted looking at the ethos of primary schools in Ireland went live today.
• Housing developers urged legislators to “bypass the naysayers” in order to boost Ireland’s housing supply.
• An outbreak of bird flu was identified in a commercial turkey flock in Co Carlow.
• Fota Wildlife Park in Co Cork will remain closed until at least the end of November following an outbreak of avian influenza.
• The Republic of Ireland were drawn with France, Netherlands and Poland in the European qualifiers for the 2027 Fifa Women’s World Cup.

INTERNATIONAL

Ads by the American company Polymarket predict a victory for Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election, with voters going to the polls today. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#NEW YORK: The polls opened in New York City’s mayoral election, in which Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani is forecast to win what would be a seismic victory.

#DICK CHENEY: Former US Vice President died aged 84.

#HUNGARY: A 38-year-old Irishman was charged with the murder of an American nurse in Hungary last year.

#PALESTINE: The United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres decried “continued violations” of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.

PARTING SHOT

The mysterious sighting of what was suggested to be a “lion like” creature in the woods in Co Clare has been solved – and it turns out it was actually a mouse…

Mystery solved! Turns out the “lion” spotted roaming Clare was just a Newfoundland dog with a fresh haircut!

Gardaí from Killaloe have concluded that the recent video of a “lion like” animal roaming around the woods in East Clare is in fact the very friendly dog named ‘Mouse’. pic.twitter.com/xjlms0nNaY

— Garda Info (@gardainfo) November 4, 2025

Or rather, it was Mouse the Newfoundland, who had had a haircut.