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

IRELAND

A Congressional delegation comprised of representatives primarily from Florida and Georgia are visiting Dublin this week as part of the Aer Lingus College Football Classic Game Sasko Lazarov Sasko Lazarov

• A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman was stabbed in north Belfast.
• A man in his 50s has died after getting into difficulty in the water at Inch Strand in Whitegate, Co Cork.
• The National Transport Authority last year imposed cumulative financial penalties of €17.9 million on transport operators, with Dublin Bus accounting for more than half the total.
• The funeral service of journalist, author and feminist activist Nell McCafferty has taken place today in her hometown of Derry.
• Over half of people surveyed want to see vapes and e-cigarettes taxed in line with other EU countries.
• The Advertising Standards Authority has said that a controversial road safety ad is outside its remit.
• Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States has said that there has been a ‘reset’ in relations between the UK and Ireland since the new British government was elected, after years of tension between the two over Brexit and Northern Ireland. 

INTERNATIONAL

Displaced Palestinians gather at a food distribution center in Deir al Balah, central Gaza Strip Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#TWO HORSE RACE Independent US Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has said he is suspending, but not ending, his campaign. 

#ERUPTION A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted yesterday evening for the sixth time since December, spewing red lava through a new fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula.

#GAZA A ten-month-old baby in Gaza has been paralysed due to polio as the region recorded its first case of the disease in 25 years.

PARTING SHOT

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More than 60,000 Leaving Certificate students received their results today.

Education Minister Norma Foley has congratulated the class of 2024, saying that today is a “momentous day in the lives” of students and their families.

It is expected to be the final year of grade inflation that has become a feature after grade adjustment measures were introduced because of the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Pictured are proud parents Josh and Vivienne with Ruben Maguire, who got all H1s at CUS Secondary School, Dublin.