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

IRELAND

Brent Pope launches St Patrick's Mental Health Services' ahead of World Mental Health Day as part of the 'Elephant in the Room initiative'. Ellie the Elephant was painted by Sinead Smyth who titled her artwork 'anything but me'. Marc O'Sullivan Marc O'Sullivan

• The Taoiseach meet US president Joe Biden in the White House, amid doubts over whether he would directly call on Biden to halt US supply of arms to Israel.
• Senators used their speaking time in the Seanad to declare they are not assets of Russian intelligence operatives.
• The National Children’s Hospital contractor BAM sent a €25 million invoice for work that cost €200,000, the health minister said.
• A man in his 20s was arrested in Dublin on suspicion of the murder of 22-year-old Mary Ward, who was found dead in her home in Belfast.
• A 16-year-old boy appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a priest at an Irish barracks in Galway earlier this year.
• While it was a quieter night for Irish troops in Lebanon, a risk of roadside bombs could threaten rapid resupply of their positions.
• Irish Rail acknowledged that it “overstretched” with its now scrapped timetable that led to overcrowding and delays.
• Simon Harris condemned one of his party’s Dublin councillors for “offensive” and “entirely inappropriate” remarks she made about Jewish people and Israel.
• Planning legislation, which will see a major overhaul of the development system, will go before TDs for a final vote tonight.
• The Spark, the viral hit created by a group of young rappers from Ireland, was longlisted in two categories at the Grammy Awards.

INTERNATIONAL

Members of the Florida Army National Guard walk past a destroyed home that was only recently washed down the block by Hurricane Helene, as they check for any remaining residents ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#MILTON:Florida residents were urged to evacuate as a deadly hurricane neared their homes, with Jope Biden calling it a “matter of life and death”.

#MIDDLE EAST: Hezbollah said its fighters repelled two Israeli army attempted incursions into southern Lebanon, as Israel intensified its ground invasion of its northern neighbour.

#TOP TORY: Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch will go head-to-head in the final heat of the Conservative Party leadership contest in the UK, after James Cleverly was knocked out in the latest round of voting.

#TWEET A former adviser to the Trump administration said Israel should “drop napalm” over Irish peacekeeping troops in Lebanon, before deleting the post.

PARTING SHOT

The first building on Trinity’s campus to be named after a woman will be the Eavan Boland Library – but it came about in unexpected circumstances.

That’s because it has ‘denamed’ the library which was previously named after George Berkley, an Anglo-Irish Bishop, scholar and philosopher who lived in the 1700s, owing to Berkley’s ownership of slaves and connections to the slave trade.

TCD renamed its central library after the celebrated poet Boland following a wide ranging consultation resulting in more than 800 submissions.

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