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

IRELAND

Carol Monaghan, Rochestown and Judy Wilson, Grange at a Knitting and Crochet class in Douglas Parish Hall for the Cork Life Long Learning Festival.

• Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said there is “profound dysfunction within the fabric” of Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) following the resignation of its chair over spinal surgeries.
• Labour leader Ivana Bacik welcomed reports that whiskey, wine and dairy products have been left out of EU counter-tariffs on US products.
• The Housing Minister said applications from property owners for short-term lets based in towns with a population of over 10,000 may not be approved. 
• A man who claimed that he accidentally cut the throat of his wife with a carving knife he bought two days earlier in a Cork supermarket was found guilty of murder.
• A teenager was found guilty of the rape and sexual assault of a girl in a car at Limerick Racecourse on 26 December 2022 when he was fifteen and she was sixteen.
• Paid statutory sick leave is to remain unchanged at five days per year, despite a commitment from the last government to eventually expand it to 10 days. 
• Drew Harris’s contract as Garda Commissioner was extended for three months by government until his replacement is recruited in the summer. 
• Around 240 women still travel from Ireland to the UK each year to access abortion services, The Journal Investigates reported.
• A player suffered a broken jaw and significant head injuries in an incident with another player during a GAA football match in Kerry.

INTERNATIONAL

An advertisement hoarding by Amul displays cartoon on US president Donald Trumps tariffs at Byculla in Mumbai, India. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#TRADE WARS: Stock markets regained some ground today, even as trade tensions between the United States and China were strained by turmoil over President Donald Trump’s tariffs offensive.

#ISRAEL: Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu avoided Irish airspace on his flight from Hungary to the US on Sunday, adding hundreds of kilometres to his journey.

#USA: The US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to use an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants, but said they must receive a court hearing before they are taken from the United States.

PARTING SHOT

Romulus and Remus, 'Dire Wolf' pups Colossal Biosciences Colossal Biosciences

ANCIENT DIRE WOLVES were claimed to be “de-extinct” by scientists with the birth of three pubs, though some scientists are sceptical of the claim.

Colossal Biosciences, the same company behind the Woolly Mouse, announced yesterday the worlds first “de-extinction” in the birth of three dire wolves in October 2024 and January of this year. 

The dire wolf has been extinct over 12,500 years ago, and primarily lived in North America. 

Read Sam Starkey’s full report here.