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

IRELAND

Members of the public taking part in an outdoor yoga class in Marlay Park, Dublin, this morning. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• A woman died after an assault in Athboy in Co Meath.
• Ireland’s August high temperature record was provisionally broken in Carlow.
• The goat hoisted to a tall platform at the Puck Fair in Killorglin, Co Kerry was brought down from his cage for the second time in two days due to the heat.
• Irish Water is asking the public to continue their efforts to conserve water in order to ensure critical supplies can be maintained into late summer and autumn.
• A wreath was laid in the Leinster House lawn to mark 100 years since the death of “one of Ireland’s founding fathers” Arthur Griffith.
• Ireland’s cyber security teams sent out an urgent warning to small businesses in the wake of an increased threat of ransomware attacks.
• The Central Statistics Office said its Residential Property Price Index has reached the same level as the peak of the Celtic Tiger boom in 2007.
• The Government was urged to remove VAT from hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to improve equality of access to these products for women experiencing menopause.

INTERNATIONAL

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#NEW YORK Author Salman Rushdie, whose writings have attracted death threats from Iran, was attacked on stage at an event in New York.

#UKRAINE Ireland called for Russia to end its “illegal occupation” of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, as Moscow and Kyiv traded accusations of new shelling near the facility.

#MALI Germany announced that it has immediately suspended its involvement in the Mali MINUSMA United Nations mission in a dispute with the Malian Government.

#NO RAIN A drought was declared for parts of England following the driest summer for 50 years.

PARTING SHOT

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