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

IRELAND

Jockey Jake Coen celebrates after winning the Adare Manor Opportunity Handicap Hurdle aboard Aurea Fortuna at Galway Racecourse. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

• President Michael D Higgins has condemned the footage released by Hamas of two emaciated Israeli hostages as showing “a shocking act of cruelty” alongside a call for further action to alleviate the suffering in Gaza.
• A number of weather warnings are to come into place across the country from the early hours of tomorrow morning as Storm Floris approaches.
• One person has died after a car in Omagh, Co Tyrone was set on fire in a suspected arson attack.
• A man aged in his late teens has been seriously injured in a single-vehicle collision in Co Kerry yesterday.
• Uisce Éireann has completed works on a major pipeline that supplies drinking water to a third of the Greater Dublin Area.

INTERNATIONAL

After Mass, Pope Leo XIV returns to the altar to thank and greet the thousands of young pilgrims, nuns, and priests who have come from around the world to celebrate the 2025 Youth Jubilee Week. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#WEMBLEY STADIUM: A man has died after falling during an Oasis concert at Wembley Stadium.

#THE WEST BANK: The US State Department has confirmed an American citizen had died this week in the West Bank, with family and Palestinian officials attributing his death to arson by Israeli settlers.

#REMOTE WORKING: The Premier of the Australian state of Victoria has announced plans to enshrine working from home in law, saying it should be “a right, not a request”.

PARTING SHOT

Hannah Tyrrell lifts the Brendan Martin Cup with her daughter, Aoife. Ben Brady / INPHO Ben Brady / INPHO / INPHO

A CELEBRATION HAS been planned for tomorrow to honour Dublin’s Senior Ladies’ team after their All-Ireland championship win against Meath earlier today. 

Dublin finished the match 2-16 to Meath’s 0-10 in a comprehensive win thatclinched their seventh senior All-Ireland crown.

Tomorrow afternoon, Dublin GAA fans are invited to gather at Smithfield Square for a celebration of their win.