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

A man pictured at a pop up store selling Kneecap merch at the Bernard Shaw in Drumcondra. Rolling News Rolling News

IRELAND

• Plans are still being worked out for two Irish passengers aboard the hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius, as international health authorities continue to monitor the outbreak linked to the cruise ship.
• The building of a bicycle shed at University Hospital Kerry which cost €127,000 is a “pure waste” and another slap in the face to families who are at breaking point, Sinn Féin said.
• Workers at outsourcing tech firm Covalen voted in favour of strike action after the company announced that the jobs of 720 workers on Meta projects are at risk of redundancy.
• Almost 300 asylum seekers who claimed to be children were subsequently found to be adults in the last four years, according to Tusla.
• A €700 million cross-border investment deal will deliver a more reliable and comfortable rail service between Belfast and Dublin, operators have said.
• Fine Gael candidate Senator Seán Kyne has a narrow lead over Noel Thomas of Independent Ireland in the race to fill the vacancy left by Catherine Connolly’s election as President, according to a new opinion poll from TG4 and the Irish Times.
• Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has insisted there is no “threat to recruitment” in the health service, and said a recruitment freeze for frontline HSE staff such as nurses and midwives is not on her “radar”.
• The winner of Saturday night’s €8.7 million Lotto jackpot has come forward and arrangements are underway for them to collect their prize.

INTERNATIONAL

The MV Hondius cruise ship anchored at a port in Praia, Cape Verde. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#HANTAVIRUS: Health officials have stressed the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius is not expected to develop into a major epidemic.

#NEW YORK: A US judge has released a suicide note purportedly written by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein weeks before his death in a New York jail.

#ISRAEL: An Israeli settler suspected of kicking and wounding a French Catholic nun in Jerusalem will go on trial for assault motivated by hostility towards a religious group, Israel’s justice ministry has said.

#POPE: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has met with Pope Leo XIV amid ongoing tensions between Donald Trump and the first US pope.

#UK ELECTIONS: Labour is expected to take a hammering in today’s elections across England, Scotland and Wales, with some pollsters predicting Keir Starmer’s party will lose 75% of the council seats they’re defending.

PARTING SHOT

Bambino's Stephen Street shop Bambino Bambino

Popular pizza chain Bambino is opening a new shop in Dublin city centre.

Bambino has become a firm favourite with Dubliners, and queues have become a mainstay outside its Stephen Street and Merrion Street locations.

No doubt fans will be glad to hear the business is looking to meet demand, as it announced it will open a third shop.

The new shop will be situated on Camden Street, between Hang Dai Chinese restaurant and Frank’s wine bar.

Read more about it here.