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

Rugby murals on Chatham Row in Dublin pictured before tonight's big game between Ireland and New Zealand. Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie / © RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan condemned what he called a criminal attack after an International Protection centre was set on fire in Drogheda last night.
• Former Fine Gael Minister turned media pundit Ivan Yates was axed from a podcast he co-presented with Matt Cooper after it was revealed today he was involved with Fianna Fáil’s presidential election campaign.
• Sinn Féin is now the most popular party in the country, according to new polling from the Sunday Independent and Ireland Thinks.
• A Status Yellow rain warning has been issued for four counties tomorrow.
• Home builder Cairns Homes has put an indicative price tag of €28.58m on 51 apartments it is planning to sell to Dublin City Council from its planned €295m apartment scheme on former RTÉ lands at Donnybrook, Dublin 4.

INTERNATIONAL

A boy looks at a makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretching across an area in Zawaida, in the central Gaza Strip. AP Photo / Abdel Kareem Hana AP Photo / Abdel Kareem Hana / Abdel Kareem Hana

#GAZA: The remains of three people handed over by Hamas to the Red Cross this week do not belong to any of the hostages, Israel said.

#UNTITLED: Pressure is building on Andrew Mountbatten Windsor to give evidence before a powerful US Congressional committee about his links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

#CIVIL WAR: Satellite imagery suggests mass killings are likely continuing in and around Sudan’s El-Fasher, according to findings by researchers at Yale University.

PARTING SHOT

Saoirse Ronan and Linda McCartney. Alamy Alamy

SAOIRSE RONAN HAS been confirmed as being set to play Linda McCartney opposite Paul Mescal’s Paul McCartney in an upcoming biopic on The Beatles.

While the 31 year old had been rumoured to feature in its upcoming film series, film studio Sony has now confirmed this will happen.

Sony is releasing ‘The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event’, where each movie will focus on a different member of The Beatles.