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

IRELAND

A photo Panda sent to one customer to show them that bags shouldn't have been put in their green bin.

• The number of people emigrating from Ireland to Australia is at its highest since 2013, according to the CSO
• Customers of the waste management company Panda have told The Journal that they felt uneasy after being sent pictures of the inside of their bins as part of a campaign to influence people not to put the wrong waste in the wrong bin
• One person has been injured in a shooting incident near a shopping centre in Dublin 15
• The owners of Dundrum House in Tipperary have closed the site’s golf course and leisure facilities, resulting in 48 people being laid off with immediate effect
• VHI is increasing the cost of its health insurance plans by an average of 3% from October
• A man has died after falling from a height onto a platform at a Dart station in Dún Laoghaire 
• The organiser of Electric Picnic criticised actions taken against Kneecap and The Mary Wallopers at UK festivals this summer, and said “mics won’t be switched off” at this weekend’s festival
• And the race for the Áras continues – Catherine Connolly appeared outside Leinster House to back protesting Oireachtas staff, Jim Gavin’s name is reportedly in the mix for the Fianna Fáil bid and Nick Delehanty launched his campaign in a virtual golf course in Dublin

INTERNATIONAL

Khan Younis, Palestinian Territories. 26 Aug, 2025. Palestinians carry the body of a journalist who was killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#GAZA: The National Union of Journalists has condemned Israel’s killing of journalists at a hospital in Gaza yesterday and demanded the country halt its “war on truth”

#EU TARIFFS: The European Commission asserted the “sovereign right” to regulate the activities of tech giants within the bloc and rejected claims by US President Donald Trump that its rules unfairly harm US firms

#UKRAINE: Ukraine acknowledged for the first time today that Russia’s army has entered the Dnipropetrovsk region, a central administrative area previously spared from intense fighting

#DRINKING WATER: More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, the United Nations said, warning that progress towards universal coverage is moving nowhere near quickly enough

PARTING SHOT

WISPIT 2b (the small dot inside the ring) is the newly discovered planet in its early stage of formation. ESO / R. van Capelleveen et al. ESO / R. van Capelleveen et al. / R. van Capelleveen et al.

Astronomers at the University of Galway, working with an international team, have discovered a young planet named WISPIT 2b, about 5 million years old and 430 light years away.

Spotted with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, the gas giant is still glowing from its formation and offers rare insight into how planets form.

The research, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, was co-led with Leiden University, with support from the University of Arizona.

Galway students played a key role in the breakthrough, describing the discovery as both surreal and career-defining.