LAST UPDATE | 14 May

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

IRELAND

Members of the public enjoying the sunny weather in Dollymount Strand. RollingNews RollingNews

• The mother of one of the teenagers killed in a collision on their way to a debs in 2023 said “there is no justice” after a seven-year prison sentence was handed to the driver.
• Gardaí hit out at “completely inaccurate” misinformation that has been shared on social media relating to the death of Garda Kevin Flatley.
• Sinn Féin intends to hold a special conference on trans and gender issues before the Dáil rises this summer.
• The company behind a development in Dublin 8 that has been the subject of opposition by an anti-immigration group defended the work it’s undertaking in the area.
• A BBC journalist said she ‘stands over’ her work on a programme which interviewed a source who claimed Gerry Adams had sanctioned the killing of a spy in 2006.
• Gardaí told Richard Satchwell that his description of his wife Tina’s death, where he said he held her off by the belt of her bathrobe, “didn’t make sense” and was “most likely a physical impossibility”.
• The head of the World Health Organization told staff today that the UN agency was reducing its management team by nearly half due to dramatic US funding cuts. One of the WHO’s senior staff members departing is Irishman Mike Ryan.  

INTERNATIONAL

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) greeting Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa (L) as US President Donald Trump (C) looks on, Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#PALESTINE: Families in Gaza have resorted to boiling grass and eating animal feed as Israel’s food, water and aid blockade on the region enters its eleventh week.

#UK: Three Nazi-worshipping extremists who believed a race war was imminent in the United Kingdom were found guilty of planning terrorist attacks on mosques and synagogues.

#SAUDI ARABIA: Donald Trump appeared to be a fan of Syria’s president Ahmed al-Sharaa- describing him as a “young, attractive” and “tough guy” following a meeting between the leaders in Saudi Arabia.

PARTING SHOT

On a sunny April day, Mary Ann Kenny’s husband died suddenly while jogging near their family home. In the months that followed, Mary Ann – who had no history of mental illness – began suffering from depression, and then from a terrifying succession of physical and psychological symptoms, including the delusion that her young children had been harmed by her medications.

In her new gripping memoir, Mary Ann details her descent into psychosis, her hospitalisation, and her inspiring journey back to health and happiness. The Episode tells the story of how she recovered from her illness, came to terms with her trauma, and spoke truth to the health service about the limitations of medical psychiatry.

Here, she shares a chapter from the book, detailing the harrowing and sudden loss of her husband, and how she coped, telling her children their dad had gone…

You can read Mary Ann Kenny’s Voices article here.