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

IRELAND

Sinn Féin finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty at the launch of the party's alternative budget. Sasko Lazarov Sasko Lazarov

• Pascal Donohoe “clear” that no call with his Israeli counterpart took place, and that he has no record of any such call, says Tánaiste Mícheál Martin.
• A man has been charged with abduction and the hijacking of a car which had a five-month old baby in the backseat.
• The chair of the Finance Committee has said that the amount of money spent on a security hut at Leinster House shows a “lack of respect for the taxpayer”.
• Gardaí have been contacted over 500 times since launching an appeal to victims of alleged historical abuse at schools run by religious orders.
• Fences erected along Grand Canal intended to prevent tents being erected have been removed.
• The young girl injured an attack on Parnell Street in Dublin last year is expected to be “home by Christmas”.
• The ESRI has called for land tax to be immediately implemented to prevent land hoarding in the residental market.
• Sinn Féin’s Finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty has claimed that his party’s alternative budget would save “working people in Ireland” more than €1,000.
• An elderly man arrested for abusing gardaí outside the site of the former Crown Paints factory in Coolock has been spared  jail.
• Racist attacks in Ireland are being filmed and then shared internationally as propaganda for far-right groups abroad.
• A law allowing nightclubs to open as late as 6am is expected to go before the Cabinet in October said Taoiseach Simon Harris.
• The wait times for ADHD assessments for adults in south Dublin and Wicklow have an average of a four-year wait, with new referrals paused.
• Four out of five pregnant women in Ireland are iron-deficient by their third trimester.
• The testing of drugs in Irish prisons takes an average of three months to complete.

INTERNATIONAL

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN General AssemblySource: Alamy Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#LEBANON: The US, France, and other allies have called for a 21-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon to allow for negotiations, which Israel has rejected.

#NEWYORK: New York City mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on federal criminal charges in relation to alleged corruption in his administration.

#PALESTINIANAUTHORITY: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called for the world, especially the United States, to stop arming Israel, saying that the world is at fault for the conflict in the region.

#HARRIS: Kamala Harris, in a solo television interview, has promised to grow the middle class.

#JAPAN: Japan’s longest -serving death row prisoner has been acquitted by a Japanese court, 50 year after a 1968 murder conviction.  

PARTING SHOT

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Social Democrat leader Holly Cairns has said that the she always felt the job of a TD was designed for someone with a housewife. With the birth of her first child due in November, the same time many are speculating the kicking off of a general election, she has “never felt it so acutely”.