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

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IRELAND

• Private consultants at the Rotunda Hospital have been giving their public maternity care colleagues “gifts” for caring for their patients who give birth on weekends, the hospital has confirmed. 
• Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney arrived in Ireland today and was greeted at Dublin Airport by Toaiseach Micheál Martin.
• Sinn Féin said it would bring legislation to the Dáil next week to scrap the mandatory three-day wait before having an abortion.
• Thousands of people attended an anti-racism rally in Belfast today.
• Athlete Ciara Mageean said it’s important to “celebrate the joys in life” following her diagnosis with stage four bowel cancer last year.
• The Journal reported on the prominent role Bill Kenealley played in a Fianna Fáil dynasty.

INTERNATIONAL

Scotland fans on Huntington avenue ahead of the FIFA World Cup Group C match at Boston Stadium, Foxborough Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#WAR: The United States said it downed multiple Iranian drones targeting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz early Saturday, hours after both sides said a deal to end the Middle East war was closer than ever.

#USA: Workers began removing Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Centre in Washington.

PARTING SHOT

THERE ARE CARS you drive, and then there are cars that drive themselves into the cultural imagination and never leave.

Cinema has given us some of the most iconic automobiles in history, and the strange thing is that a lot of them were never really meant to be stars. They were props. Means of transport for fictional characters. And yet here we are, decades later, still talking about them. 

The Aston Martin DB5 is probably the most famous movie car in the world, and it earned that title in Goldfinger in 1964.

You can read motoring columnist Paddy Comyn’s full Voices article here.