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

Photo shows activists from the Revolutionary Housing League, who have been occupying a closed down pub the Ardee House in the Liberties in Dublin. The activists said they are renovating the pub and want to use as a community centre. Rolling News Rolling News

IRELAND

• A search is still ongoing at Carlingford Lough between Co Louth and Co Down after a fishing boat sank this afternoon – one person has been rescued and emergency responders are still attempting to recover a second person from the vessel.
• The man stabbed to death in Dublin city centre in the early hours of Monday morning has been named locally as 21-year-old Qayyum Balogun.
• The family of Qayyum Balogun have since described him as “a very quiet, easy-going boy” who never got into trouble.
• A Cavan man must serve a six-year sentence for trying to murder his father in a “vicious and prolonged” attack before commencing a life term for murdering his mother by stabbing her at least 14 times, a Central Criminal Court judge ruled.
• Kerry TD Michael Healy-Rae heavily criticised his brother for calling for Micheál Martin and Simon Harris to be replaced the day before the no-confidence vote in the government.
• A post-mortem has established that Alex Coughlan, who died after being severely injured in Blanchardstown last month, suffered “traumatic” head and neck injuries, a court heard.
• A Dublin civil servant accused of leaking confidential government information to “handlers” in a foreign intelligence agency has been further remanded in custody pending directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions.
• Gardaí are trying to determine what caused the death of a man who swam across the River Liffey after an assault in the War Memorial Gardens.
• Galway footballer Seán ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald has made his Love Island debut – and is already causing drama in the villa.

INTERNATIONAL

Firefighters work on the site of a burning building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#UKRAINE: Russia pummelled Ukraine overnight with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles, killing at least 13 people, after having threatened a large-scale attack and warning foreign citizens to leave Kyiv.

#LEBANON: Israel and Hezbollah clashed overnight again despite US president Donald Trump’s angry call with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s increased assaults on Lebanon.

#HENRY NOWAK: A police watchdog probe into how officers responded to the “horrifying” murder of Henry Nowak will report back within the next three months, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said.

#DAGLISH: Kenny Daglish, the 75-year-old former Scotland, Celtic and Liverpool footballer, has revealed he is undergoing treatment for cancer.

#MANDELSON: Peter Mandelson was back on many of the British front pages this morning, after messages released in relation to his appointment as UK ambassador to the US laid bare splits within Labour in a fresh headache for prime minister Keir Starmer.

PARTING SHOT

Elaine O’Riordan, School of Natural Sciences and Ryan Institute, University of Galway, and lead researcher for the Irish Hedgehog Survey. University of Galway University of Galway

HAVE YOU SEEN a hedgehog recently? Are you at a loose end?

Well, if either of the above ring true, from Monday you can assist two universities in tracking Ireland’s hedgehog population.

Researchers from the University of Galway and University of Oxford are joining Hedgehog Conservation Ireland to call for people to take part in the inaugural Great Big All-Ireland Hedgehog Count.

Those involved are expecting it to be a hit.

It kicks off on Monday 8 June, and does not involve actually doing much counting. Rather, if you spot a hedgehog (dead or alive, morbidly enough), you can access this website and report your findings.

Read more about the initiative here.