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

IRELAND

86-year-old Dave Walsh crossing the finish line with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren at the Analog Devices Cork City Marathon. Darragh Kane Darragh Kane

• Police in Northern Ireland have launched an attempted murder investigation after an officer was struck by a stolen police vehicle in Co Down.
• The Minister of State with special responsibility for Sport has said the government respects and supports the decision of the FAI to fulfil the upcoming football fixtures between the Irish men’s team and Israel.
• A man in his 60s died following a single-vehicle collision in Co Roscommon this morning.
• Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental, who moved to Ireland in 1960, died at the age of 90.
• A self-driving cars national strategy is currently being developed by the government to allow the vehicles to be used on Irish roads. 
• Sinn Féin TD David Cullinane said he doesn’t “need anybody to define my politics” when pressed on his party’s left-wing credentials.
• Calls have been made for the government to introduce tobacco-free generation legislation which will prohibit the sale of tobacco products to people born after a specified year.
• The parents of a young woman who died not long after she reached the finish line in the Cork City Marathon last year took part in the event today in her memory.
• People taking part in a Sea Scout leadership course at Dollymount Beach in Dublin today rescued a swimmer who got into difficulty.

INTERNATIONAL

A car burns and fireworks explode as police watch PSG supporters celebrate in Paris Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#MIDDLE EAST: Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to push deeper into Lebanon after his military took over the medieval castle of Beaufort, calling it a “dramatic shift” in the campaign against Hezbollah.

#PARIS: French police detained 780 people involved in violent clashes in Paris and other French cities that erupted on Saturday night after PSG won the Champions League title.

#UKRAINE: Ukraine launched fresh strikes on Russian energy sites overnight into Sunday, Russian authorities and media reported, while Kyiv denied Russian claims that a Ukrainian drone struck the key Kremlin-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.

#SNP: Nicola Sturgeon said her estranged husband Peter Murrell has never explained to her why he embezzled more than £400,000 from the SNP as she spoke of the “trauma” she has gone through.

#LAOS: Heavy rains threatened to delay the search for two people missing in a flooded cave in Laos on Sunday, after the rescue of five other people who were trapped underground for more than a week.

PARTING SHOT

Sullivans and O'Sullivans gathered in Castletownbere Ceol Na Mara Waterville Ceol Na Mara Waterville

Almost 2,000 people with the last names O’Sullivan and Sullivan travelled from around Ireland and the world to meet in Co Cork on Saturday, in the largest ever recorded gathering of people with the same surname.

Guinness World Records representatives verified the milestone at the event in Castletownbere.

“With a total of 1,848 the O’Sullivan clan are the new Guinness World Record holders, congratulations!” an official told a cheering crowd.

The feat knocked another common Irish family name – Gallagher – off the top spot won in 2007 with a gathering of 1,488 participants in Co Donegal.