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

IRELAND

Picture shows Mary Curtin ,NUJ Member of Honour as she places flowers at the Veronica Guerin statue in the grounds of Dublin Castle. MAXWELLS DUBLIN MAXWELLS DUBLIN

• Health officials confirmed 443 new cases of Covid in Ireland.
• Tributes were paid to murdered journalist Veronica Guerin who was shot dead on this day 25 years ago.
• Crowds gathered outside on Kildare Street outside Leinster House to protest the ownership of the relocation of the National Maternity Hospital.
• Gardaí in Galway seized €140k worth of suspected cocaine following a search operation yesterday.
• Jeffrey Donaldson was officially endorsed as the new DUP leader.
• Gardaí renewed their appeal for information on the 10th anniversary of a 20-year-old man who was killed in a hit-and-run in Co Monaghan. 

WORLD

Protesters carry images of people fatally shot by police, as they march, after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd. Julio Cortez Julio Cortez

#UK: Anti-lockdown protesters marched through London today, throwing tennis balls at the Houses of Parliament.

#USA: The seafront block of flats which collapsed near Miami had “major structural damage” to a concrete structural slab below its pool deck that needed to be extensively repaired, according to a 2018 engineering report on the building.

#GERMANY: Investigators are looking for a motive behind an attack in the German city of Wuerzburg in which a man armed with a knife killed three people and wounded at least five others.

PARTING SHOT

A man who died 3000 years ago – likely between 1370 to 1010 BC – is the oldest known victim of a shark attack, according to a new study.

researchers have been investigating evidence for violent trauma on the skeletal remains of prehistoric hunter-gatherers at Kyoto University in Japan. 

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