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

IRELAND

Pictured are audience members taking part in the Festival of Voice's 'Sing Out', an interactive workshop with Sing Ireland at the National Concert Hall. Mark Stedman Mark Stedman

• A murder injury has been launched following the death of pregnant mother-of-two, 27-year-old Sarah Montgomery, in Donaghadee in Co Down. 
• Two more names have surfaced as potential nominees for candidacy for the upcoming presidential election as Mary Hanafin has confirmed her intention to vie for the Fianna Fáil nomination. 
• Members of Belfast rap group Kneecap will not face any charges relating to footage allegedly calling for the death of British MPs during a gig in November 2023.
• From tomorrow, couples experiencing ‘secondary infertility’, whereby they are having difficulty conceiving a second child, will be eligible to avail of free fertility treatment, such as IVF, under the government-funded scheme. 
• Taoiseach Micheál Martin is due to travel to Japan tomorrow, where he will visit Tokyo, Osaka, and Hiroshima. 
• Minister James Lawless has indicated that a universal cut to college fees for all undergraduate students in Ireland will not be replicated in this year’s budget.

INTERNATIONAL

War amputee veteran Oleksandr Dashko swims in the Dnipro river during the Oceanman Kyiv, a 5 km swim race in Kyiv, Ukraine. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#GLASTONBURY: British police are assessing videos of comments made by acts Kneecap and Bob Vylan at the Glastonbury music festival yesterday to decide whether any offences may have been committed.

#UKRAINE: Russia launched its biggest aerial attack on Ukraine overnight, a Ukrainian official said on Sunday, part of an escalating bombing campaign that has further dashed hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the three-year-old war.

#GAZA: Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes and gunfire killed 23 people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory on Sunday, including at least three children.

#SERBIA: Serbia’s president has announced more arrests of anti-government protesters, after clashes with police at a massive rally demanding an early parliamentary election.

PARTING SHOT

IT’S A DAY of rest, and you may be in the mood for a quiet corner and a comfy chair.

Jane Moore has hand-picked some of the week’s best reads for you to savour – one being What happened to Jason Landry, a report on the tragic case involving the disappearance of a Texas student, the obsessive online sleuths who have been trying to solve it, and the mysterious figure who seemed to know more than everyone else.