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

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IRELAND

• An unannounced inspection of Mountjoy Prison found that inmates were being subjected to “degrading treatment” in conditions that did not meet minimum human rights standards, according to a report published today.
• A motorcyclist who killed his neighbour by punching him once to the head in an unprovoked assault has been jailed for six years.
• Enoch Burke has returned to Wilson’s Hospital School, a day after a High Court judge warned him against breaching a court order to stay away from the Co Westmeath school.
• Irish man Sean Binder has been acquitted of all charges, including membership of a criminal organisation, fraud, money laundering, and smuggling, at a court in Greece this evening.
• A man accused of murder called his two best friends back home in Brazil on FaceTime and told them he had killed his ex-girlfriend before then turning his phone camera around to show them her body on a bed, a trial has heard.
• A painting worth tens of thousands of euro that had quietly hung in an RTÉ office for decades has been returned to an art gallery, following a search to clarify its ownership.
• A man has died and another has been seriously injured following an incident on board a Spanish fishing boat off the coast of Co Kerry this morning
• George Nkencho was tasered twice before being fatally wounded by armed gardaí in the driveway of his home in west Dublin, while it was claimed members of his family tried to alert officers that their brother had mental health issues, an inquest has heard
• A consultant forensic psychiatrist at the Central Mental Hospital said he believed that a woman accused of attempting to murder her eight-year old daughter was in the throes of a psychiatric episode at the time and that she did not know what she was doing was wrong.

INTERNATIONAL

hadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick (pictured with Nigel Farage) joins Reform UK after being sacked by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch for "plotting to defect in a way designed to be as damaging as possible" to her party” Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#IRAN: The United States has imposed fresh sanctions on Iranian security officials and financial networks accused of orchestrating a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests, as Tehran insisted there would be “no hanging today or tomorrow” despite earlier threats of fast-tracked executions.

#JORDAN: In a warehouse in North-Eastern Jordan, an aid worker is standing in the middle of a warehouse full of food donations from countries across the world intended to reach people who are starving in Gaza.

#GAZA: A US-backed plan to end the war in Gaza has entered its second phase despite unresolved disputes between Israel and Hamas over alleged ceasefire violations and issues unaddressed in the first stage.

#GREENLAND: The deployment of European troops in Greenland has no impact on US President Donald Trump’s plans to take control of the Arctic island from Denmark, the White House has said.

#TORY TURMOIL: Robert Jenrick has defected to Reform UK after being sacked from the Tory frontbench by Kemi Badenoch because of “irrefutable evidence that he was plotting” to jump ship in a “damaging” way.

#INSURRECTION ACT: US President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke a centuries-old emergency law to deploy the military domestically, as protests continue to roil Minnesota following the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration agent last week

#GROK Elon Musk’s X has said that it will block AI tool Grok from altering images of real people to show them in “revealing clothing” in places where it is illegal, but users have been reporting that nothing has changed.