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

IRELAND

Hyeran Jung takes a selfie at the Phil Lynott statue outside Bruxelles pub on the day of Phil's birthday. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• A young girl is in a “serious but stable condition” following a disturbance at a residence in Co Cork last night.
• A dog attack on a baby in Co Kerry over the weekend is understood to have been carried out by an XL Bully.
  
• The 16-year-old charged in relation to the stabbing of a Defence Forces chaplain in Galway last week has been remanded in custody until next month.
• Taoiseach Simon Harris criticised the Minister for Health for distancing himself from the decision on whether to publish the 2009 review into paedophile Michael Shine.
• A woman was followed, dragged into a park, “strangled”, and told she would be killed during an alleged early morning sex attack in the Docklands in Dublin, a court heard today.
• A woman was arrested over alleged harassment of Taoiseach Simon Harris. It’s the latest in a string of arrests connected to the alleged incidents that took place at Harris’s home in May.
• Meanwhile, Harris said he is “very conscious” of the need to ensure that hot school meals are healthy amid criticism from HSE’s national clinical lead on obesity.
• A new RSA campaign targeting young men was described as “insensitive”, “misguided” and “ableist” by campaign groups and disability rights activists.
• Inland Fisheries Ireland said it was not formally notified of a significant farmed salmon escape in Co Galway within the mandatory 24-hour period.
• Co Down residents who were evacuated from their homes following the discovery of a large Second World War-era bomb can return home after a controlled explosion on the device.
• An Irish man in his 60s has died while on holidays in Thailand. It’s understood he fell from a balcony in the early hours of Monday morning.
• The weather is expected to turn wet and windy tomorrow night as the remnants of Hurricane Ernesto make their way to Ireland’s shores.

INTERNATIONAL

People check on a destroyed building after an Israeli bombardment today at Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#MPOX: The World Health Organisation today said Mpox is “not the new Covid”.

#GAZA: An Israeli strike on a school in Gaza being used as a shelter killed twelve people, the territory’s health ministry said. Meanwhile, the Israel Defence Forces said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages in Gaza.

#CEASEFIRE: US diplomat Anthony Blinken said Israel has accepted a “bridging proposal” for a ceasefire in its war in Gaza.

#SICILY: British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and five others are feared to have died, with their bodies trapped inside a luxury yacht which sank in a tornado.

#SPAIN: The world’s oldest person, Spain’s Maria Branyas Morera, who lived through two world wars, died today at the age of 117.

PARTING SHOT

Raygun performing at the Paris Olympic Games Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

Breaker Rachael Gunn – aka Raygun – set the internet ablaze after her performance at the recent Paris Olympics. 

She has since said that the backlash to her breaking performance has been “devastating” and added that she took the competition seriously and gave it her best.

Writing for The Journal, Irish b-boy Tobi Omoteso says that while Raygun might not have the skill for the Olympics, she brought her own style.

He added that the reaction to Raygun is a shame, as breaking is about community and originality.

Read more from Omoeso here.