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

IRELAND

Two Riverdance dancers, Amy Mae Dolan and Fergus Fitzpatrick, ahead of a special Riverdance Alumni event at the Gaiety Theatre to mark 30 years of Riverdance Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Richard Satchwell was given a life sentence for the murder of his wife Tina Satchwell at their home in Co Cork.
• Survivors of domestic violence and abuse have described their experiences of navigating family law courts in Ireland in a new report, with many saying that the system re-traumatised them and did not protect them from abusers.
• Extreme wind has been named as one of the biggest climate threats that Ireland faces, with future storms capable of wreaking havoc on the country’s power lines and communication networks.
• The board of Trinity College decided to divest from Israeli organisations and academic institutions after years of pressure from students.
• A court has heard how two bungling drug traffickers communicating with each other through Google translate and suffering with heavy seasickness struggled to save their own lives when the malfunctioning trawler they were aboard ran aground in high seas.
• The nursing home chain at the centre of a programme by RTÉ Investigates has issued an “unequivocal” apology to residents and their families.
• The sister-in-law of Jozef Puska, the man who was convicted of murdering Ashling Murphy, told gardaí that she and another family member burned clothes, including a bloodstained t-shirt, the day after the school teacher was murdered, a trial has heard.
• A man in his 50s has been hospitalised after the truck he was driving crashed into a house in Co Roscommon.
• More than 50 locations around the country have been earmarked for new electric vehicle charging hubs by the end of this year.

THE WORLD

Displaced Palestinians in the area where the Israeli army operated in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#GAZA The Red Cross has denounced a decision by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – an American organisation supported by the Israeli government – to close its aid distribution centres in the strip as “surpassing any acceptable legal, moral and humane standard”. 

#UKRAINE A call between the US and Russian presidents will not lead to “an immediate peace” in Ukraine, Donald Trump has said.

#PORTUGAL Searches for the body of Madeleine McCann resumed in Portugal near where she was last seen as a toddler in 2007.

#BULGARIA The European Commission has given approval for Bulgaria to adopt the euro from next year, putting it on course to become the 21st member of the eurozone. 

PARTING SHOT

Our colleagues at The Journal Investigates have published their latest investigation, which dives into the data centres located across Ireland.