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

Protesters Sylvia Dabuleviciute from Lithuania with flag wrapped her as they protest against the RDF Militia and atrocities in El Fasher Sudan while marching on O'Connell Street Dublin. Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie / © RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• The FAI agreed to submit a formal motion to the UEFA Executive Committee requesting the immediate suspension of the Israel Football Association (IFA) from all UEFA-affiliated European football competitions.
• Irish peacekeepers were just a few hundred metres away as an Israeli drone strike blew up a van near Bint Jbeil earlier today, The Journal has learned.
• A 45-year-old man appeared before a special sitting of Cork District Court charged in connection with firearms and explosives offences.
• Fianna Fáil is bracing itself for a delay in delivering its internal review into its approach to the presidential election.
• Gardaí in Conamara are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman at a house in Co Galway yesterday.
• Independent Ireland’s newest elected representative – who joined the party upon leaving the Social Democrats - does not believe in the politics of the “left and right”. 

INTERNATIONAL

Firefighters evacuate a resident following a Russian rocket attack that hit a multi-storey apartment building in Dnipro, Ukraine. Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP

#UKRAINE: A Russian drone slammed into a tower block in eastern Ukraine early this morning, killing three people and leaving at least 12 people including two children injured, Ukrainian emergency services reported.

#BRAZIL: A tornado killed at least six people and injured more than 400 as it destroyed most of a town in southern Brazil, authorities said today.

#FAST FRIENDS: US President Donald Trump handed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán a one-year exemption from sanctions for buying Russian oil and gas after the close right-wing allies held a chummy White House meeting yesterday

PARTING SHOT

YOU MAY NOT know this, but there exists, among certain cohorts of the public, a perception that Ireland’s political establishment and media establishment are too intimately connected.

And what on Earth would give them that idea?

Carl Kinsella discusses Ivan Yates’s involvement with Fianna Fáil in this week’s Surrealing in The Years.