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

IRELAND

Little Blue Heroes at Leinster House today,

• A man in his 40s has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run in north Co Dublin last night that killed a pedestrian.
• State-backed student accommodation will have shared bathrooms, twin rooms, and communal kitchens in a bid to increase bed capacity. 
• Taoiseach Micheál Martin has confirmed that the revised Housing for All plan, which was due to be published next month, has been delayed.
• A British-Australian doctor who has recently spent time working in Gaza is appealing to the Irish government to help lead the charge to get mobile hospitals into the besieged territory.  
• Just over a dozen people were queuing for visa applications when the US Embassy opened at 9am this morning. We asked them what they thought about new social media checks required for visas by the US.
• Two people were arrested after a woman was allegedly falsely imprisoned in Celbridge, Co Kildare last night.
• Three people were brought to hospital after a fire broke out above a Thai massage parlour on Granby Row in Co Dublin this morning.

INTERNATIONAL

US President Donald Trump, center, along with the King Willem-Alexander, second right, and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, right, poses for a family photo at the 2025 NATO summit in The Hague. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#DEAR DONALD: NATO chief Mark Rutte sent a gushing, caps-filled, pre-summit text to US President Donald Trump ahead of a major summit which kicks off in the Netherlands today.  

#THE 12 DAY WAR: There was confusion this morning when the ‘ceasefire’ between Iran and Israel – announced by US President Donald Trump last night – didn’t quite seem to be going to plan. You can see how it all unfolded here.

#GAZA: The United Nations has condemned Israel’s apparent “weaponisation of food” in Gaza, a war crime, and urged Israel’s military to “stop shooting at people trying to get food”.

#UNITED STATES: A US Supreme Court has paved the way for the Trump administration to resume deportations of undocumented migrants to countries that are not their own.

PARTING SHOT

Could you actually get in trouble for using a dodgy box?

An estimated one in five Irish households access live sport using a dodgy box – on this week’s episode of The 42FM, Sinéad and Gavin explain the crackdown on their use, and the potential punishments for any user caught with a dodgy box.

You can listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.