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

IRELAND

President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins greets Fintan McCarthy today at Áras an Uachtaráin David Fitzgerald / SPORTSFILE David Fitzgerald / SPORTSFILE / SPORTSFILE

• The UK Government will not fund the redevelopment of Casement Park in time for the Euros in 2028 due to “a significant risk that it would not be built in time”. 
• Gardaí have appealed to the public to be wary of “fake news” and “misinformation” regarding an incident involving a secondary school in Dublin.
• A teenage boy used his phone to film a young girl who was undressed in a changing kiosk at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin, a court heard.
• Parents and guardians of more than 160 autistic children have been told the State has no special needs educational facilities for them weeks after the start of the current school term.
• Tánaiste Micheal Martin said the Irish state failed the family of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
• Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill said she “commends the activists” who took part in a protest yesterday over the lack of Irish language signage at Belfast’s new Grand Central Station.
• The Edmund Rice Schools Trust was unaware Education Minister Norma Foley had approved their plans to transform Synge Street C.B.S. in Dublin 8 into a Gaelscoil until just one day before the announcement.
• The family of Sean Brown have said they are “devastated” that the British Government has rejected a coroner’s request for a public inquiry.
• A taxi driver who has a strict “no card” policy and has his vehicle emblazoned with “cash only” signs appealed the revocation of his PSV licence.
• Basketball Ireland confirmed that South Dublin County Council has granted planning permission for the €38 million redevelopment of the national arena.
• The Electoral Commission ruled that a ‘meeting’ of the National Party’s leadership to dismiss Justin Barrett, which was attended by just one person, was invalid due to insufficient notice.
• Patrick Kielty revealed he thought he had given Pope Francis shingles after meeting him at the Vatican over the summer.

INTERNATIONAL

Justin Timberlake, center, walks into court today for a hearing in Sag Harbor, New York Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#VIETNAM: 233 people have died in the aftermath of a disastrous typhoon in Vietnam.
#UKRAINE: Keir Starmer and Joe Biden today discussed whether to let Kyiv use long-range missiles against Russia, in what is likely their last meeting before an election that could upend US policy on Ukraine.
#SAG HARBOUR: Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to impaired driving, resolving the criminal case stemming from his June arrest in New York’s Hamptons on a drunken driving charge.
#STRIKE: Thousands of Boeing factory workers in the United States yesterday voted to strike, spurning a contract that the embattled aviation giant characterised as a boon for manufacturing staff given the company’s stressed financial condition.
#FATBIKES: Dutch transport authorities seized thousands of illegal electric “fatbikes” imported from China, as the bicycle-loving country grapples with a new craze that has even prompted heated debate in parliament.
#BANKSY: Two men were charged with burglary after a Banksy painting was stolen from a London gallery on Sunday.

PARTING SHOT

The Derry Girls mural in 2019. Alamy Alamy

It’s a plot twist that Derry City Council doesn’t find very funny, and neither do some locals.

The main cast of the iconic sitcom Derry Girls were immortalised with their very own mural on a gable end on the city’s Orchard Street in 2019 – but now the pub on which the striking street art is painted has erected an awning that partly covers Erin, Michelle and the rest of the Derry Girls gang.

However, Derry City and Strabane District Council has informed the public that it’s on the case. 

“Scunnered is not the word for it,” said one local.

Read more about the mural here.