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

IRELAND

Rory McIlroy celebrates with the trophy after victory over Sweden's Joakim Lagergren following a playoff for 1st place on day four of the 2025 Amgen Irish Open at The K Club, Ireland. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

• Multiple bomb threats against the Co Wicklow home of Tánaiste Simon Harris were phoned in to garda stations today.
• A man arrested in connection with the murder of 40-year-old Christopher ‘Chrissy’ Burns in Mountnorris, Co Armagh has been charged.
• The search for a young boy feared dead continued today in Donabate.
• A man was airlifted to hospital after he was recovered from the Shannon Estuary during a major search operation this morning.
• Rory McIlroy won the 2025 Amgen Irish Open after a dramatic play-off against Sweden’s Joakim Lagergren.
• The GAA’s partnership with Allianz has been referred to the association’s Ethics and Integrity Committee over its connection to Israel.

INTERNATIONAL

Police tried to keep rival Israel supporters and pro-Palestine groups separate at Bondi Beach when pro-Palestine protesters organised a paddle out and paper boats lining the beach in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Richard Milnes / Alamy Live News Richard Milnes / Alamy Live News / Alamy Live News

#UKRAINE: Russia fired its biggest-ever aerial barrage at Ukraine early today, killing at least two people and setting the seat of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv ablaze, authorities said.

#PORTUGAL: A cable linking two cabins disconnected shortly before the funicular crash that killed 16 people in Lisbon this week, hours after the cable had passed a visual check, accident inspectors have said.

#THE MILLENIAL SAINT: Italian teenager Carlo Acutis has become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint following a canonisation Mass at the Vatican this morning. 

PARTING SHOT

The cover of Long Kesh journal Faoi Glas from 1974 Paddy McMenamin Archive, University of Galway Library Paddy McMenamin Archive, University of Galway Library

A NEW DIGITAL archive of prison journals created in Long Kesh internment camp during the 1970s has been made available by University of Galway.

The university has published a digital archive of journals and photos from the Maze Prison from the mid-1970s.

It was provided with the journals by Paddy McMenamin, who was interned at the camp from 1974-1976.

He contributed to a number of republican prison journals while at the camp, including Misneach, An Síoladóir, and Faoi Glas, and was the editor of An Fuascailteoir (the Irish for “the emancipator”).