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

IRELAND

tena Line ferry comes into Dublin port past Poolbeg lighthouse as Status Orange warning is in place around Ireland. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• Stephen Mooney (53) was sentenced at to the mandatory term of life imprisonment for the murder of his 43-year-old wife Anna Mooney (nee Shuplikova).
• A teenager was killed in a two-vehicle collision on the N71 road in Cork this morning.
• An assault of an Indian man in Tallaght falsely accused of inappropriate behaviour over the weekend was condemned as a racist attack by local representatives.
• Irish people applying for a visa to visit the US for the purposes of employment or study will be subject to a new ‘Visa Integrity Fee’ that is to be brought in by Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’.
• A new age verification system which seeks to prevent children from accessing “adult-only” video content on sites such as Instagram and TikTok came into place.
• The level of rainfall in Dublin since yesterday amounted to nearly as much as what is usually spread out across the entire month of July.
• The leaders of the coalition met with the two money ministers this afternoon to finalise capital expenditure plans for the coming decade.
• Ryanair CEO Michael confirmed that staff at the airline are paid commission on each bag they charge the oversized fee on and that this commission may increase. 
• Victims of sexual and physical abuse within the Irish education system expressed anger over the exclusion of “barbaric” corporal punishment from a major new inquiry into abuse in Irish schools.
• The Tánaiste joined the foreign ministers of 24 countries in calling for an end to the war in Gaza, as they say the suffering of civilians “has reached new depths”.
• A man who died in a house fire on the northside of Cork city overnight has been named as master brewer Peter Lyall.
• An international drugs gang staying in West Cork holiday homes used anti-bugging devices and a stealth speedboat in a botched operation to import €58m worth of cocaine into Ireland, the Special Criminal Court heard today.
• The State’s environmental watchdog found a traffic cone used as a “makeshift filter” by Uisce Éireann to be “completely ineffective” at blocking sewage from entering a river near a popular Waterford beach.
• BBC Sounds is no longer available to people in Ireland, following a previously flagged change that came into effect today.

INTERNATIONAL

Firemen check the wreckage of a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft that crashed onto a school campus in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#BANGLADESH: A Bangladesh fighter jet crashed into a school in the capital Dhaka today, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 170.
#GAZA: President Michael D Higgins condemned Israel’s shelling of the city of Deir el-Balah.
#UKRAINE: Russia and Ukraine will hold new peace talks in Turkey Wednesday as a follow-up to two rounds in Istanbul that made little progress on ending their war, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced.

PARTING SHOT

Visitors to the Marble Arch Caves in Co Fermanagh yesterday had to be evacuated after extremely heavy rainfall resulted in a flash flood.

Video footage posted online by visitors shows a group of people being evacuated by a staff member as water gushes down the stairs to collect in the caves.

One video posted by couple Kim Mahon Hay and Alistair Hay on TikTok shows the evacuation. The floods hit the caves at around 4.45pm yesterday, Kim said.