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

IRELAND

Architect of Good Friday Agreement Senator George Mitchell (right) and Paul Keary, Global CEO of Teneo, arriving today at an event commemorate the 25th anniversary of the agreement. Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• A new nine storey building at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin was opened today.
• A man has been arrested in connection with an incident in which a tenant was  threatened with a charged circular saw by his landlord in Ballinasloe in Co Galway. 
• A 40-year-old man has been remanded in custody after gardaí charged him with the murder of a man in a hostel in Dublin in the early hours of Wednesday.
• An Independent TD has called for an emergency team to be established to evacuate Irish citizens from Sudan.
• Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said that yesterday was the first time he learned that Robert Watt attempted to email him a brief on the now abandoned proposal for Tony Holohan’s secondment. 
• PSNI Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell, who was targeted by gunmen earlier this year, has been discharged from hospital.
• Justice Minister Simon Harris urged all parties to vote to renew the mandate for the Special Criminal Court in the wake of the Regency Hotel shooting.
• The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has announced that Noeline Blackwell will step down as its CEO later this year.

INTERNATIONAL 

View from the ground of the Starship exploding. SpaceX on YouTube SpaceX on YouTube

#ROCKET SpaceX’s most powerful rocket ever exploded nearly four minutes after its delayed first blast-off in Texas.

#YEMEN At least 85 people have been killed and hundreds have been injured in a crush at a Ramadan cash handout in Yemen.

#BUZZFEED Digital media company BuzzFeed will shut down its news division as it cuts another 15% of its staff across the company, adding to layoffs made earlier this year.

#GERMANY A German court said it does not have jurisdiction to try the prime suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann for a number of unrelated sexual offences, including the alleged rape of an Irish woman. 

#AI The family of Michael Schumacher plans to take legal action against a German magazine for publishing what it claimed to be an artificial intelligence-generated interview with the former Formula One star.

PARTING SHOT 

A person waits outside the Walnut Tree Pub in Aldington, Kent, ahead of the funeral cortege for Paul O'Grady. PA PA

Comedian and TV stalwart Paul O’Grady has been laid to rest following a “moving” yet “jolly” service which included a reading from LGBT rights activist Michael Cashman.

Battersea Dogs And Cats Home also paid tribute to O’Grady with a canine guard of honour at his funeral, describing the late entertainer as the “beating heart” of the charity.

A trio of puppies from the rescue centre were on hand to meet friends and relatives arriving at St Rumwold’s Parish Church.

You can read more about his private funeral service here. 

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