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

IRELAND

Jerry Dennehy from Kerry with a pair of horses on the first day of the national ploughing championships in Carlow. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection will continue to process personal data related to the Public Services Card (PSC), saying it has a “strong legal basis” to do so.
• Gardaí continued their searches in Omeath, Co Louth as part of investigations into the murder of a woman who was last seen in Belfast in 2017.
• The High Court made orders allowing the HSE to take steps aimed at saving the life of a severely ill woman with an eating disorder.
• A man in his 70s died after a car crash in Roscommon.
• Customers in north Dublin have had what is being described as a “miracle” escape after a car drove through the front of a shop this afternoon.
• Officials from Bord Bia were confronted by farmers at the National Ploughing Championships over a decision by the body to process Irish meat in the UK.
• Apple told an EU court that a 2016 European Commission ruling that it must reimburse Ireland €13 billion in back taxes “defies reality and common sense”.

WORLD

A kayaker paddles through morning mist on Pigeon Lake in Kawartha Lakes in central Ontario. Fred Thornhill Fred Thornhill

#SOME FEAT: An American breast cancer survivor became the first person to swim across the Channel four times non-stop in a 54-hour feat of endurance.

#ISRAELI ELECTION Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a tough battle to retain his position as Israel’s prime minister as the country goes to the polls for the second time this year.

#CONTROVERSY: English cricketer Ben Stokes accused The Sun newspaper of engaging in “the lowest form of journalism” after it published details of a family tragedy that occurred before his birth.

PARTING SHOT

The Ploughing Championships showcases the best of Irish and worldwide agricultural techniques – sometimes there’s something that just catches your eye.

Here’s Norman – it’s an autonomous precision scouting and spraying robot, developed by Harper Adams University with Aim Technology. 

Looks like we could be in for another Norman invasion (I’ll get my coat).

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