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

IRELAND

Pictured are, Niall McGuinness, Grace Kiely and Aisling Creedon (all Double Bass) prior to the Cork Fleischmann Symphony Orchestra conducted by Keith Pascoe perform Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. Jim Coughlan Jim Coughlan

• A number of weather warnings remain in place as cleanup from Storm Bert begins across the country.
• Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said that her party is being received well on the doors as a new poll by the Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks today placed support for Sinn Féin alongside that of the two other biggest parties, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
• A school in Wicklow is having to hold special education classes in storage rooms, corridors and stairwells after water damage from a faulty roof destroyed the school’s special education needs (SEN) classrooms following a storm last March.
• Opposition parties have hit out at Fine Gael over the viral video of Simon Harris having a tense encounter with a carer, saying the frustration comes from years of government neglect of the disability sector.
• Eamon Ryan said that the $300 billion deal made at COP29 was a ‘starting point’ as other countries criticised the sum as ‘abysmally poor’.
• Convicted drug dealer and head of the Keane crime gang, Christy Keane, remains in Garda custody today following his arrest in connection with a seizure of over half a million euro worth of cocaine in Limerick.
• Tributes have been paid to Ryan Glenn and Gordy Galbraith, who lost their lives in a car crash in Co Donegal on Friday night.
• Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has insisted that the finances outlined in his party’s manifesto are based on the Department of Finance’s methodologies and projections as scrutiny over the three largest parties’ manifesto financing continues. 

INTERNATIONAL

A member of Israeli security personnel inspects the site, where a building was hit by a Hezbollah rocket strike from Lebanon. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#LABOUR GOVERNMENT: Over one million people have signed a petition calling for a general election in the UK – only months after Labour took control of government in the general election in July. 

#AIR STRIKES: Hezbollah has fired at least 185 rockets and other projectiles into Israel today, wounding seven people in the militant group’s heaviest barrage in several days, in response to deadly Israeli strikes in Beirut

#UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Israel has said that an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi was murdered in the United Arab Emirates, describing it as an act of anti-Semitic “terrorism”, and vowing to ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice.

PARTING SHOT

Micheál Martin presented Bridget Delaney of Carlow Town with her centenary medal this week to mark her 100th birthday.

TÁNAISTE MICHEÁL MARTIN presented Bridget Delaney of Carlow Town with her centenary medal this week, to mark her hundredth birthday.

“Thank you, it’s lovely,” she told the Tánaiste as he presented her with the medal, and kissed it. “Isn’t that gorgeous?”