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

IRELAND

Finalists in the Royal Hibernian Academy at the announcement of the 2025 RDS Visual Art Awards are : Anastassia Varabiova, Susanne Horsch, Charlie Dineen, Vicky Ochala, Billie Adele O’Regan, Éile Medb Ní Fhiaich, Thais Muniz, Lily Mannion and Clara McSweeney. The exhibition opens 21 November 2025 at the RHA, with a prize fund of almost €60,000. Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• The teenager who died at a Tusla facility in Dublin was named locally as Vadym Davydenko.
• A defamation suit was filed by People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy over remarks made by presidential candidate Heather Humphreys during a recent debate.
• A fresh poll on the election suggested Catherine Connolly was well ahead of Humphreys.
• Three men were given sentences of 14 and 15 years for the manslaughter of Tom Niland in Sligo.
• An Garda Síochana has been compelled to investigate accusations of money laundering by Airbnb related to its hosting of rental properties in occupied Palestinian territory after the force conceded a case brought against it at the High Court today.
• A judge is expected to deliver the verdict in the trial of Soldier F during events on Bloody Sunday next week.
• If all potential legal cases are to proceed against an Irish dancing body then it may not be able to continue as a going concern.

INTERNATIONAL

Palestinians walk among destroyed buildings in Gaza City Jehad Alshrafi / AP) Jehad Alshrafi / AP) / AP)

#SOUTH LEBANON: In our latest dispatch, The Journal’s Niall O’Connor meets Fr Paul Murphy who cares for the Irish soldiers. It’s only a little over year ago that the army chaplain hit the headlines when a radicalised teenage boy stabbed him outside a barracks in Galway.

#GAZA: US President Donald Trump has threatened to “go in and kill” Hamas if it keeps killing people in Gaza, in an apparent reference to recent shootings of Palestinian civilians following a ceasefire deal with Israel.

#VIRGINIA GIUFFRE: A posthumous book by the trafficking survivor alleged that the UK’s Prince Andrew “felt entitled” to have sex with her.

PARTING SHOT

It was all smiles for Heather Humphreys during a visit to a farm in the north-east today but, as mentioned in the roundup above, the latest polls have placed Catherine Connolly out in front of the Fine Gael candidate.

This comes just over a week from when the country will be heading to the polls to elect our tenth president.

Can Humphreys still catch the Independent? Our politics team consider this and the rumblings of centre-left disunity in Labour and the Greens over their leadership’s backing of Connolly in the latest edition of The Candidate. You can listen here.

And if you’re wondering about that not insignificant cohort who are planning to spoil their vote or not vote at all, then Rónán Duffy has a piece of analysis on the moves here.