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

IRELAND

Tanaiste Micheal Martin lays a wreath as he attends the annual Wolfe Tone Commemoration at Bodenstown Cemetery, Co. Kildare. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

• A man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting Green Party leader Roderic O’Gorman. 
• A 27-year-old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 36-year-old father of one in Co Kerry earlier this year.
• A 19-year-old man has died as the result of a road traffic incident near Oranmore in Co Galway yesterday afternoon.
• Tusla CEO Kate Duggan is to meet with Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman to review the state agency’s report on its engagement with missing boy Kyran Durnin.
• Tánaiste Micheál Martin has hit back at unattributed briefings he claims are coming from Fine Gael headquarters that refer to him as tetchy and grumpy.
• A woman in her 70s who died after she was struck by a car which mounted the footpath on Main Street in Charleville, Co Cork yesterday as she was buying a ticket for the local GAA club Lotto has been named locally as Mary Fehilly.
• A fire that broke out at a large commercial premises in Cork overnight has been brought under control.
• Opposition parties have further criticised the long-awaited Covid-19 inquiry, with Sinn Féin saying that powers to compel people to attend needed to be available to the chairperson “from the outset”. 

 INTERNATIONAL

Floods have devastated the village of Aldaia in Valencia, with Irishwoman Gabrielle Tallent and her family being amongst them. Gabrielle Tallent Gabrielle Tallent

#US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on US comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live to give herself a pep talk days before the presidential election.

#ALDAIA: ‘It’s surreal’: Irishwoman Gabrielle Tallent’s family home in Aldaia, Valencia, was destroyed in the floods that swept the region.

#MOLDOVA: Moldovans are casting votes in a decisive presidential runoff that pits pro-Western incumbent Maia Sandu against a Russia-friendly opponent.

#GAZA: The World Health Organisation has said that four children were among six people wounded in a strike on a polio vaccination centre in northern Gaza.

PARTING SHOT

BY NOW, PRETTY much everyone is familiar with how dynamic pricing works.

In a nutshell – when demand for a product is high, the price of the product can be raised.

Paul O’Donoghue talks dynamic pricing, and why Irish shoppers should be prepared for the possibility of it in supermarkets.