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

Fans return to Dublin from the Electric Picnic Festival 2026. Photo shows L to R. Alex Bob, Australia, Gracie June, Nederlands, Valentina Rodrigo, USA, Cloe Batiot, Dubai and Kake Berry from USA. asko Lazarov / ©RollingNews.ie asko Lazarov / ©RollingNews.ie / ©RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Billionaire James Dyson, the inventor of the famed British vacuum brand, is locked in a stand-off with locals in Co Waterford over access to a graveyard and historic rights-of-way on the grounds of his estate.
• A total of 164 Irish-based employees at global fintech company PayPal are to be made redundant.
• A 21-year-old man has been jailed for life for the murder of a 44-year-old father of five who was attacked with a golf club outside his home in Doneraile, Co Cork in October of last year. 
• The government has released new details of the State-backed investment accounts it plans to introduce next year. 
• Housing needs and homelessness have become the most common reason that people seek support from Dublin-based charity Ana Liffey, overtaking substance problems.
• Traffic restrictions are in place in Wicklow because EU defence and foreign affairs ministers are meeting in Druids Glen this week.
• Changes to the income thresholds for the National Childcare Scheme will see thousands of families receiving more subsidies.
• Fontaines D.C. confirmed a Slane Castle gig next June after they closed out this year’s Electric Picnic.

INTERNATIONAL

Customers wait in long queues to receive liquefied petroleum gas cylinders in Kathmandu as recent flooding in Rasuwa and Nuwakot adds pressure to cooking gas supplies. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#MESSI: Lionel Messi has announced his retirement from international football with immediate effect. 

#NEPAL: The death toll in the catastrophic flooding in Nepal and Tibet climbed past 900 on Monday, with more than 4,700 missing.

#NORTH CAROLINA: Tánaiste Simon Harris will represent the European Union at a two-day meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in North Carolina.

#JORDAN: Iran attacked military targets in the Middle East on Monday in retaliation for the first American strikes on its territory in a month, in a fresh flare-up of the war that has engulfed the region. 

PARTING SHOT

The Traitors flag has been raised over Slane Castle once more, ushered in by the squawking of crows, the unloading of coffins, and the promise of four weeks of delicious mind games and murder.

A fresh crop of 23 players have landed for season two of The Traitors Ireland. The first season was a hit, clocking up more than 800,000 viewers on its most-watched episode.

Read more about the first episode of season two here.