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

IRELAND

There's a spanner in the works for the Taoiseach's plans to dissolve the Dáil next Thursday as the President might be double booked. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• Classes at SETU Waterford are cancelled on Monday following major cyberattack
• Children’s Minister received a Tusla report about missing boy Kyran Durnin
• The broadcast moratorium will be scrapped in advance of general election
• Ballincollig in Cork was named as Ireland’s Tidiest Town for 2024
• Ex-international referee Michelle O’Neill selected as Fianna Fáil general election candidate for Wexford
• Man accused of the murder of Mary Ward in Belfast refused bail as the court heard of ‘tumultuous relationship’
• There’s a spanner in the works for dissolving Dáil on Thursday as the President’s schedule clashes with the timings
• Government are to kick the Occupied Territories Bill to after the election
• Independent TD Brian Stanley said Mary Lou McDonald has treated him ‘appallingly‘
• OPW hoped €336,000 bike shed would be ‘adapted and reused‘ at other historic properties
• Independent media sector called for ‘meaningful’ support following Virgin Media’s decision to reduce output
• The Green Party are among signatories of a letter calling on Green candidate Jill Stein to step aside in US election
• SDLP councillor condemned a protest banner against proposed Gaelscoil in East Belfast
• An estate agent was sanctioned for charging house hunters a €2,000 ‘priority deposit’

INTERNATIONAL

Clean up efforts got under way in Valencia today. Alamy Alamy

#LEBABON: Fresh strikes hit south Beirut overnight after Israeli army evacuation orders

#PALESTINE: UN agency said Israeli bulldozers ‘severely damaged’ its West Bank office

#THE NETHERLANDS: Thieves blew open the doors of the MPV Gallery in The Netherlands in art heist that saw Andy Warhol prints stolen 

#BRAT YEAR: Charli XCX’s ‘Brat’ was chosen as Collins Dictionary word of the year

#SPAIN: A wave of solidarity washed over the epicentre of Spain’s deadly floods

#SERBIA: The death toll increased to 14 in Serbia after a train station roof collapsed

PARTING SHOT

Clare's Shane O'Donnell and Galway’s Paul Conroy have claimed the 2024 GAA player of the year awards for their 2024 inter-county displays. INPHO INPHO

Clare’s Shane O’Donnell and Galway’s Paul Conroy have claimed the 2024 GAA player of the year awards for their 2024 inter-county displays.

Meanwhile, All-Ireland champions Clare have six players honoured on the 2024 PwC GAA-GPA All-Star hurling team.

Five players from beaten finalists Cork and four from Munster champions Limerick are also recognised, making it an all-Munster selection.

The selection were announced at tonight’s All-Star banquet at the RDS.

You can read the full details here, by The42′s Fintan O’Toole.