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

As the Feis Ceoil celebrates 130 years, singer Colette McGahon (69) listens to Evelyn Li (8) play her violin ahead of performing at the festival for the first time Photocall Ireland Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• The garda watchdog is investigating the death of a man in custody in Dublin.
• The prime minister of Canada is set to travel to Ireland next week and will meet with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and President Catherine Connolly.
• A man is seriously injured after an assault in Co Laois in the early hours of Sunday morning.
• A senior garda officer has said the investigation into Jerry McCabe’s murder is still “very much live”.
• Politicians in the North have strongly condemned DUP MP Carla Lockhart for appearing alongside masked men at a protest in Co Down on Saturday.
• The Minister of State for Defence is set to meet European ministers in Cyprus today and on Monday to discuss the bloc’s security strategy which will be launched by Ireland during its EU Presidency in the coming months. 

INTERNATIONAL

Palestinians inspect the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike at Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip Alamy Alamy

#SHIPWRECK: The Italian coastguard has said it has recovered 10 bodies after a shipwreck of a migrant boat off Malta.

#HENRY NOWAK: David Lammy told JD Vance he was wrong to link Henry Nowak’s murder to immigration and warned him the intervention on social media was “not helpful”.

#ISRAEL: At least one person has been killed, and five others wounded in multiple shooting attacks in Israel today, with one of the perpetrators killed.

PARTING SHOT

Brian Lougheed Brian Lougheed

People lined the streets of Cork today for the one hundredth Eucharistic Procession.

The annual event in the diocese of Cork and Ross has become not only a religious, but a cultural event over the last century.