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

IRELAND

People sitting on the park bench while relaxing and enjoying the good weather in Stephens Green, Dublin. Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie / © RollingNews.ie

• Richard Satchwell described to gardaí how he initially kept the body of his wife of 25 years in a freezer before burying her beneath the stairs of their home after he said she tried to stab him in the head with a chisel, a prosecution barrister has told his murder trial.
• “Extensive submissions” made on behalf of “Grace” to the Farrelly Commission were not included in the final report, the solicitor responsible for Grace’s legal and personal affairs has claimed.
• Taoiseach Micheál Martin was quizzed in the Dáil today about the creation of the new ‘housing tsar’ role and accused of “cooking the books” in relation to the delivery of affordable housing last year. 
• A 17-year-old boy has been sentenced to eight years in detention for the attempted murder of an Irish army chaplain last year.
• Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan has received government approval to forge ahead with legislation to overhaul how Ireland responds to people seeking asylum in the State. 
• Gerry Adams’s reputation as a peacemaker suffered “an unjustified attack” by the BBC when one of its programmes wrongly alleged that he sanctioned the murder of a former Sinn Féin official, the High Court has heard.
• More allegations have been made against convicted paedophile surgeon Michael Shine in the past ten days than during any similar period in the last 15 years, according to a leading advocacy group.
• Kneecap have had a gig in the UK cancelled following widespread backlash by a number of politicians in the UK for comments they made in resurfaced videos from their earlier shows.

INTERNATIONAL

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney passes journalists as he arrives at the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council, the morning after the Liberal Party won the Canadian federal election, in Ottawa. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#SPAIN: Spain’s top criminal court said it is investigating whether the huge blackout that paralysed the Iberian Peninsula was “an act of computer sabotage on critical infrastructure”.

#SWEDEN: Three people were shot dead in a city north of the Swedish capital today, police said.

#ISRAEL: Rights group Amnesty International has accused Israel of committing a “live-streamed genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza by forcibly displacing most of the population and deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe.

#CANADA: Canada’s Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has lost his seat in Carleton, a suburb of Ottawa, ending his two decade-tenure as a member of parliament.

PARTING SHOT

Pictured at the repatriation ceremony are (L-R) Kathryn Thomson, chief executive of National Museums NI and Kuike Kamakea-Ohelo from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (William Cherry / Presseye/PA) (William Cherry / Presseye/PA) / Presseye/PA)

THREE SETS OF ancestral human remains taken from burial caves in Hawaii and brought to Belfast in the 19th century have been repatriated.

National Museums Northern Ireland returned the remains, known as iwi kupuna in the Hawaiian language, in a private ceremony following dialogue with the authorities in the US island state. They will now be taken back to Hawaii.

A separate public ceremony was held in the Ulster Museum in Belfast on Monday evening and attended by representatives from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), Hui Iwi Kuamo‘o – an organisation established to protect the islands’ ancient remains – and the United States embassy.