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

Celebrating Airnav Ireland's 90th Birthday: Bryan Bourke, Chairman Airnav, and Mayor of Limerick John Moran. Brendan Gleeson Brendan Gleeson

IRELAND

• Trade union leaders rejected the government’s offer of WRC talks on Tuesday in an attempt to halt Wednesday’s public sector strike.
• Former swimming coach George Gibney was sentenced to 15-and-a-half years in prison for sexually abusing four girls in the 1970s and 1980s. 
• A life sentence for Riad Bouchaker, who tried to murder three children on Parnell Square in a knife attack, would not be appropriate because of his “intellectual disabilities”, his lawyers argued before the Central Criminal Court.
• Public sector employees working from home during scheduled strike action would be the “equivalent to passing the picket line”, unions representing workers in the sector said.
• The Special Criminal Court heard that Daniel Kinahan is to apply for bail.
• Contractors for the National Transport Authority (NTA) felled a number of mature trees in Phibsborough on Dublin’s northside.

INTERNATIONAL

Several large and medium-sized retailers in France were victims of a cyberattack, which impacted refrigeration equipment. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#FRANCE: Major French supermarket chains said they were hit by a cyberattack that caused their refrigerators to shoot up in temperature in hundreds of stores, forcing spoiled food to be thrown away and raising concerns about food security.

#ELECTRIC SHOCK: The European Union is going to cap imports of hybrid vehicles from China to 350,000 a year in an effort to protect the EU market from “unfair competition”.

#THE VATICAN: Pope Leo XIV announced he would have an operation “in the coming days” for a lump on his lung, saying it had been located “at a very early stage”.

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