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

IRELAND

Piper Decque aged 6 from Dublin at the beginning of the Dominick Street ‘Your Back Garden’ Programme. Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Concerns were raised that “vital” developmental checks are not being carried out on newborns due to a lack of public health nurses.
• The Bishop of Galway said the interment of former bishop Eamonn Casey was under “careful consideration” following allegations of sexual abuse.
• The search for the body of a young boy who fell from the Cliffs of Moher on Tuesday continued today.
• A woman in her 30s was arrested today in connection with a fatal assault that took place in Tallaght, Dublin yesterday. She is the second person to be arrested as part of the investigation.
• Coalition leaders discussed the setting up of the Covid inquiry at their weekly meeting this week, with the Tánaiste later telling reporters on Thursday that he growing “impatient”.
• RTÉ decided a competition for tickets to tomorrow’s All-Ireland Football Final clash between Galway and Armagh will be run through email after viewers in Northern Ireland were unable to enter.

INTERNATIONAL

Madison Corcoran of Ireland competes in the women's kayak single heats during the canoe slalom. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#PALESTINE: An Israeli strike on a school housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza killed at least 30 people and wounded another 100, in an assault Taoiseach Simon Harris called “despicable”. 

#USA: Donald Trump told Christian supporters they “won’t have to vote again” if he is elected as US president in November.

#FRANCE: Railways delays cause further disruption at the Paris Olympic Games for the second day in a row as authorities continued to search for saboteurs. 

#ISRAEL: Palestinian children described abuse, sexual assault, disease and starvation in Israeli prisons, in a report published this week by Save the Children.

PARTING SHOT

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SOMETIMES WEIRD THINGS happen during the week and they just can’t wait for a Saturday morning column.

That was the case on Thursday when I became one of the few dozen people who will ever see the instantly infamous waxwork model of Sinéad O’Connor in the flesh, before it was almost as instantly scrapped. 

Read the rest of Carl Kinsella’s comun here.