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

IRELAND

a diver at the Fortyfoot in Sandycove today.

• Ireland is set for a notably warmer and more settled spell over the coming days, with Met Éireann forecasting a steady climb in temperatures after a cool start to the weekend.
• We asked our readers to share their experiences of travelling to and from the big concerts that take place every year across Dublin.
• A new pilot program to allow prisoners to receive phone calls from listed friends and family members to landline phones in their cells could be expanded, the Irish Prison Service has said.
• Ireland is to take the reins on further EU budget negotiations during its EU presidency.
• Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following the discovery of an explosive device at a home in Bandon, Co Cork.
• Sinn Féin has said that an under-16 ban may drive teens to ‘darker, unregulated, corners of the internet’.

 INTERNATIONAL

#IRAN has closed the Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israel’s ongoing attacks on Lebanon. 

#HEATWAVE: Several European countries have issued weather warnings as a heatwave pushes temperatures towards the 40C mark in France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal, impacting citizens and tourists alike.

#KEIR STARMER is facing pressure to outline his exit from Downing Street following Andy Burnham’s triumph in Makerfield.  

PARTING SHOT

‘We have the power to change the internet for the better’, says the World Wide Web inventor

Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the HTTP protocol and the World Wide Web.

WHEN TIM BERNERS-LEE invented the World Wide Web in 1989, he said it was a “battle” to convince people that it should be free.

Speaking before a packed out crowd at The Dalkey Book Festival on Friday, the British computer scientist said in the early years there was the temptation to incorporate the internet, but Berners-Lee said “it had to be free”. 

He was working for the intergovernmental organisation, CERN, at the time, which is globally recognised for its work in particle physics and advanced technology and based just outside Geneva, Switzerland. 

Berners-Lee said there were worries that one day CERN could go down the road of monetising the World Wide Web, which is why he says getting the director of the organisation to sign an agreement that it would never charge royalties for the invention “was a pivotal moment”.

Read more about his fight to keep the web free here.