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

A young Spring lamb at the Curragh Plains in County Kildare. Rolling News Rolling News

IRELAND

• Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said he doesn’t feel his leadership of Fianna Fáil is under threat “in any shape or form” over his handling of the fuel protests last week.
• President Catherine Connolly has convened a meeting of the Council of State to discuss the constitutionality of the International Protection Bill 2026.
• Home builder Cairn Homes has lodged plans for a 715 residential unit scheme for Jamestown Business Park in Finglas in west Dublin, at a cost of €372m.
• Tánaiste Simon Harris has acknowledged there is a “challenge” around parking ratios for new-build housing estates and that he will raise the matter with the Minister for Housing.
• A man has been hospitalised and his three dogs killed after a suspected arson attack at a house in Waterford in the early hours of this morning.
• Judgement has been reserved following the trial of three men for the murder of Belfast journalist Lyra McKee.
• A major garda search operation is underway for a man in his twenties who allegedly rammed a garda vehicle in Co Monaghan today.
• Dublin City Council is replacing its network of clothes recycling banks with a new operator.

INTERNATIONAL

A clip from a video shared by the Iranian Embassy in Tajikistan.

#LEBANON: Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire starting today, US President Donald Trump said after speaking to Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun.

#AIR TRAVEL: Europe only has six weeks’ supply of jet fuel because of the Middle East conflict, the head of the world’s energy watchdog has warned.

#AI WAR: US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has said that AI-generated videos depicting Jesus Christ gorily attacking US president Donald Trump are “disgusting and detached from reality”.

#HUNGARY: Hungary’s incoming prime minister Peter Magyar has vowed to shut down his country’s public service broadcaster until he can “ensure it is impartial”.

PARTING SHOT

Protesters pictured on O'Connell Street last week. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

At the height of last week’s fuel price protests, a page on the donation-based platform GoFundMe was set up on behalf of those who had brought parts of the country to a standstill.

Titled “Support the Protests. Money for food and drinks”, it said any money raised would be used to buy food and hot drinks for protesters as “a simple way to show them the country has their back”.

The fundraiser, set up by Irish-based internet personality Michael McCarthy on 9 April, almost immediately went viral and pulled in tens of thousands of euro within hours, despite the initial target being set at just €3,000.

By the time donations were paused on Sunday 12 April, almost six thousand people had pledged €152,965 between them, including five individual contributions of €1,000 or more.

A week after the fundraiser was launched, it’s not clear how exactly the money will be used or distributed.