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

IRELAND

Artist Ailbhe Ní Bhriain (L) and Barbara Dawson, Director at the Hugh Lane Gallery, at the officially opening of The Dream Pool Intervals exhibition Naoise Culhane Naoise Culhane

• Three men have been jailed for the “cruel, cynical and depraved” rape and sexual assault of a woman they encountered in a Dublin nightclub almost six years ago.
• A man in his 60s has died following a two-vehicle collision in Co Westmeath. 
• An activist who lived-streamed himself driving his jeep into an anti-immigration protester during a demonstration in Dublin has been sentenced to 16 months in prison.
• Conor McGregor will not face any charges in relation to social media posts he published before and during the Dublin riots in November 2023.
• Nicola Coughlan, Graham Norton and Lola Petticrew are among the Irish figures who have been nominated for a Bafta TV award.
• The Department of Foreign Affairs has updated its advice for transgender people planning to travel to the United States. 
• Independent Ireland leader Michael Collins has said that Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath “smeared the noble dead” by referring to Collins and his namesake as “traitors”.
• The body responsible for Ireland’s electoral system is seeking the public’s views on the future of election posters.

INTERNATIONAL

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is greeted by French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of the 'Coalition Of The Willing' summit Alamy Alamy

#STABBING A man seriously wounded five people in a stabbing attack on a busy shopping street in Amsterdam, Dutch police said.

#UKRAINE SUMMIT European leaders have  agreed to ramp up rather than lift sanctions on Russia over its war in Ukraine at a summit in Paris today, as France and Britain began sketching out plans to send a “reassurance” force after any peace.

#SINBAD At least six Russian citizens are feared dead after a tourist submarine has sunk off the Red Sea coast in Egypt.

PARTING SHOT

Clare Keogh Clare Keogh

Pictured above is Dáibhidh Ó Luinín with his dogs on his graduation day at University College Cork.  He graduated with an MA in Modern Irish. He’s among 410 graduates from UCC College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences.