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

Team members from An Coimisiún Toghcháin campaigned on Dublin’s Grafton Street today, urging the public to vote tomorrow. Rolling News Rolling News

IRELAND

• Sixteen people appeared in Dublin District Court on various public order related offences and one man was charged with violent disorder following a second night of violence near the Citywest Hotel in Saggart
• Luas services between the Belgard and Saggart stops have been suspended again tonight due to public disorder near the Citywest hotel
• The two remaining presidential candidates conducted their last day of campaigning, as a new poll today showed that independent Catherine Connolly has a commanding lead over her Fine Gael rival Heather Humphreys
• Unsure what to do on polling day? Here’s how to avoid spoiling your vote
• A man was found guilty of the murder of a 47-year-old man whose skeletal remains were found in a jute bag at a ravine in rural east Cork
• Interest rates on some of AIB’s mortgages have been reduced

• A former paratrooper (Soldier F) was found not guilty of the murders of two men and the attempted murders of five men during the events of Bloody Sunday in 1972

INTERNATIONAL

Pope Leo XIV pictured with the UK's King Charles today. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#WEST BANK: US Vice President JD Vance has criticised Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation, saying it amounted to an “insult”

#RUSSIA: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the latest US sanctions targeting two major oil firms were “serious”, but not strong enough to significantly affect the Russian economy

#VATICAN: For the first time since the Protestant Reformation in the 16th Century, the Pope and reigning British monarch have publicly prayed together

#STRICTLY: Strictly Come Dancing hosts Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly have announced they are leaving the BBC dance programme.

PARTING SHOT

Bob Geldof and Pete Briquette. Rolling News Rolling News

Above is Bob Geldof and Pete Briquette of The Boomtown Rats, pictured during their return to Technological University Dublin’s Bolton Street campus to unveil a commemorative plaque marking 50 years since the band’s first gig at the venue.

During a chat with The Journal earlier, Geldof revealed that he believed he would have “walked” the presidential election.

Over the summer, Geldof had been linked with a run for the Áras.

Last month, he said he had a conversation with Taoiseach and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin on the topic but that the conversation was short because Martin had already chosen former Dublin football manager Jim Gavin as his party’s nominee.

“I think I’d have walked the fucking thing,” Geldof said.

“I think I would have won.”