NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round up of today’s news.

IRELAND

Cunninghams traditional pub in KIldare Town. Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Regional lockdown restrictions are to remain in place for Kildare for two more weeks but will be lifted for Laois and Offaly.
• Agriculture minister Dara Calleary has resigned and the government has been facing sustained criticism after an Oireachtas Golf Society function in Galway.
• EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan has resisted calls to resign but has apologised for his attendance at the dinner.
• Supreme Court Judge Séamus Woulfe has also apologised for attending. 
• Acting chief medical officer Ronan Glynn has also asked people to look past their ‘justifiable anger’ over the event.
• A further 79 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Ireland, with no new deaths reported.
• A man and two children died following a road accident when their car went down an embankment and into Lough Foyle.
• The average national rent price has continued to rise year-on-year, despite the impact of Covid-19.
• Two men have appeared in court charged with the murder of a homeless man in Cork. 
• A judge has ruled that Stormont’s Executive Office is acting unlawfully in delaying the introduction of a compensation scheme for Troubles victims.

WORLD

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden. Andrew Harnik / PA Images Andrew Harnik / PA Images / PA Images

#UNITED STATES: Joe Biden has vowed to unite an America torn by crisis and contempt, as he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, quoting Séamus Heaney in his speech. 

#GREEN LIST: Croatia, Austria and Trinidad & Tobago were removed from Britain’s safe travel list, meaning many overseas travellers are facing quarantine.

#GREECE: Manchester United captain and English footballer Harry Maguire was arrested following an altercation with police on the Greek island of Mykonos. 

PARTING SHOT

Here is that speech from Biden, who said that President Donald Trump had “cloaked American darkness for far too long”.