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

IRELAND

Tori O'Connell pictured with reserve Supreme Champion & Supreme Champion during awards ceremony at Cork Summer Show in Curraheen. Alison Miles Alison Miles

• A child has died after being struck by a car in Co Mayo.
• The teenage boy who was killed in an incident at the Donegal International Rally on Saturday has been named as 15-year-old Tadhg Callaghan Carter.
• A former college principal whose body was found at her home in Waterford had a “rare gift” and “saw goodness where others saw faults, beauty where others hurried past, and friends where others saw strangers,” her funeral mass has heard.
• A boy in his early teens is in a critical condition in CHI Temple Street following a crash in Portlaoise involving an e-bike. 
• It is the view of survivors that Fianna Fáil should apologise for the abuse carried out by Bill Kenneally, Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said.
• Ambulances took over an hour to respond to almost 3,500 calls that were classified as high priority last year.
• A man was charged to court after he attempted to stab a PSNI officer with a long, sharp item” at a hospital in Co Antrim.
• A PSNI officer drew his firearm because he “feared for his own safety” after the driver of a vehicle later abandoned in Donegal failed to stop for police.
• Dublin Marathon said it will “consider” refunding unsuccessful ballot entries next year, after taking in €149,000 in fees for this year’s event from people who will not get to run.
• A local politician in Citywest has raised concerns that arguments between residents over a lack of parking will escalate into actual violence. 

INTERNATIONAL

File image of British prime minister Keir Starmer Alamy Alamy

#DOWNING STREET: Keir Starmer is reflecting on the “political realities” he now faces, a Cabinet minister said as he failed to rule out the possibility the British prime minister could resign.

#MIDDLE EAST: US vice-president JD Vance arrived in Switzerland to help formally launch negotiations with Iranian leaders over curbing Tehran’s nuclear programme and building the fragile interim deal to end the war in Iran.

#TAX: Britain’s King Charles is to become the first UK head of state to reveal their personal tax bill to help enhance transparency around royal finances.

PARTING SHOT

Former President Michael D. Higgins with Orla Flynn, ATU President and Billy Bennett, Registrar and Chief Academic Officer at ceremony where he was conferred with Honorary Doctorate Copyright : Eamon Ward Copyright : Eamon Ward

Atlantic Technological University conferred an honorary doctorate on former President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins at a special ceremony that took place on Friday 19 June at its Connemara campus in Letterfrack.

The award recognised President Higgins’s exceptional contribution to public life, culture, literature and human rights over several decades, as well as his enduring commitment to creativity and inclusive citizenship.

Speaking at the conferring, ATU President Orla Flynn said President Higgins’s “lifelong dedication to the arts, to social justice and to the idea of an inclusive republic aligns deeply with the mission and values of Atlantic Technological University”.

ATU also conferred an honorary doctorate on and design pioneer Mary V. Mullin in recognition of her lifelong impact on design education and cultural development in Ireland and internationally.

Her career began in 1968 at the Kilkenny Design Workshops, and she went on to play a founding role in what is now the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland.