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

IRELAND

Attendees enjoy the music and atmosphere at the Forbidden Fruit festival at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin today. Sasko Lazarov / © RollingNews.ie Sasko Lazarov / © RollingNews.ie / © RollingNews.ie

• Around 120 people have been subject to enforced deportations so far this year, including almost 50 people on commercial flights.
• Ireland has issued a formal rebuke of Israel after its troops fired in the direction of Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon this week.
• A young man who died in a double-drowning tragedy off the Co Donegal coast has been remembered for his quiet but sociable presence, smiling face and ability to always listen and respond with a deeply respectful and generous heart.
• Senator Frances Black has said that she is 98% sure that she will not be going forward with a presidential run following speculation. 
• A 23-year-old Romanian man has been remanded in custody charged with smuggling two men through Rosslare Europort.
• A garda was struck by an electric bike yesterday in Dublin in a hit-and-run.
• A male teenager was arrested yesterday following a car being stolen from a residence in Parteen, Co Clare, yesterday evening. 
• Medical card holders will have to pay to avail of a new pharmacy prescription service that is to be rolled out by the end of the year. 

INTERNATIONAL

Inter fans gather outside the San Siro stadium prior to the screening of the Champions League final soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan in Milan, Italy. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#TRADE WAR: US President Donald Trump has said that he is doubling the tariff rate on steel to 50%, a dramatic increase that could further push up prices for a metal used to make housing, cars and other goods.

#GAZA STRIP: Palestinians in the Gaza Strip blocked and emptied dozens of lorries, the UN World Food Programme said, as desperation mounts following Israel’s months-long blockade and air strikes.

#KAJA KALLAS: The European Union’s diplomatic chief Kaja Kallas has said the bloc is beefing up defence spending after “tough love” from the Trump administration, as she called for stronger ties to counter China’s “economic might”.

PARTING SHOT

For six years, Richard Satchwell begged for his wife’s return - all the while, Tina lay buried under their stairs. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

ON A BRIGHT sunny October morning in 2023, Richard Satchwell walked – almost stumbling at times – through a square in Cashel, Co Tipperary. 

Flanked by gardaí and wearing handcuffs, he emerged from a garda vehicle with his head bowed. Locals looked on from the top of the street as the last moments of Satchwell’s freedom played out, with the flashes of photographers’ cameras lighting up the shadows below his face. 

Satchwell was charged that day and remanded in custody to wait his trial in the Central Criminal Court in Dublin that concluded on Friday with a guilty verdict. 

Tina Satchwell was first reported missing in 2017. Her husband has finally been found guilty of her murder.

But what happened between 2017 and 2023? The Journal’s Niall O’Connor has the inside story on the investigation.