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

Ireland

The Irish Coast Guard at Spanish Pont about to lift a Generator as an alternative power supply and fuel to Inismaan in the Aran Islands

• Around 84,000 people are still without water following Storm Éowyn.
• The government will bring forward a proposal to amend the Dáil Standing Orders on Thursday, which seeks to resolve the row over speaking rights in the House. 
• The HSE has launched reviews into the delivery of nine babies at Portiuncula University Hospital (PUH) in Ballinasloe, Co Galway.
• Simon Harris has said he believes it was “important” that President Michael D. Higgins spoke at a Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration in Dublin yesterday, despite some attendees protesting against his speech.
• A young boy who died from a drowning incident at a swimming pool in a hotel in Offaly three years ago had removed his armbands shortly after getting into the water, an inquest has heard.
• The government is set to sell a further 5% of its stake in AIB. 
• The Irish Coast Guard has airlifted an alternative power supply and fuel to Inis Meáin in the Aran Islands as Uisce Éireann works to restore the water supply there.
• Ireland’s 25-year-olds mostly still live with their parents, are very concerned about the housing crisis and climate crisis, have poorer mental health than they did when they were 20, and have a median income of €558 per week (€29,016 per year). 

International

An Auschwitz survivor is comforted as she lays a candle during commemorations at Auschwitz-Birkenau Alamy Alamy

#HOLOCAUST REMEMBERANCE Some of the few remaining survivors of Auschwitz returned to the notorious Nazi death camp today as the world marked the 80th anniversary of its liberation.

#GAZA Eight of the hostages due for release in the first phase of a truce deal between Israel and Hamas are dead, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer said today.

#AI RACE AI Fears that the gold rush could be under threat rocked Wall Street today following the emergence of a ChatGPT-like model from China, triggering predictions of turmoil for Silicon Valley and accusations of cheating.

Parting Shot

Andrew Harris Andrew Harris

Recent storms hitting Ireland are creating an 8 Metre swell out at sea, causing huge waves to come ashore on the Irish SW Coast as the tide rises.

Here the waves are bursting over the sea wall flooding the car parks in Tragumna, West Cork.