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

IRELAND

Festival goers at their tents enjoy themselves at the Body and Soul music festival. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• The Taoiseach said he doesn’t expect any further cost of living measures to be introduced ahead of Budget 2023.
• A motorcyclist was killed in the Kells Road Races, the first national road race to be held in Ireland since 2019. 
• Cocaine and heroin valued at €1.3 million was seized at Rosslare Europort.
• Gardaí say the results of a post-mortem will determine the course of any investigation into the death of a man in his 50s in Drumshanbo.
• Meanwhile, police in the North launched a murder investigation after the body of a woman in her 70s was discovered in Co Tyrone.
• Gardaí appeal for witnesses after a pub in south Dublin was petrol bombed, with people still inside, in the early hours of Saturday morning.
  
• Landline telephones have been installed in 804 prison cells at a cost of more than €1 million this year, and work is underway to extend the convenience to every inmate in the state.
• Only 32 additional taxis were added to the Dublin fleet since the start of 2022, and a Fine Gael TD has warned the shortage of taxis is now a “serious issue”. 
• Irish consumers recycled a record amount of e-waste last year. 

INTERNATIONAL

A firefighter works in front of flames during a wildfire in the Sierra de la Culebra in the Zamora Provence on Saturday June 18, 2022. Emilio Fraile Emilio Fraile

#SPAIN WILD FIRES Firefighters in Spain are struggling to contain wildfires in several parts of the country, which is suffering a heatwave unusual for this time of the year.

#UKRAINE Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed that his forces “will not give away the south to anyone”, as Nato’s chief warned the war in Ukraine could last “for years”.

#FRANCE President Emmanuel Macron faced a challenge from a newly formed left-wing alliance in parliamentary elections that could see his centrist coalition lose its overall majority.

#ENERGY SUPPLIES Germany announced emergency measures to ensure its energy needs after a drop in Russian gas supplies, including reverting to coal in what it called a “bitter but indispensable” step.

#SWIMMING The sport intends to become the first to set up an ‘open category’ to allow transgender athletes to compete in a separate class at the elite level.

PARTING SHOT

Amid news that only 32 new taxis were added to the Dublin fleet since the beginning of 2022, we ask readers: Should Ireland bring in services like Uber and Lyft as an alternative to taxis?

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