NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a roundup of today’s headlines.

IRELAND

Photographed at the launch of Traveller Pride Week at The Complex in Smithfield, Dublin, was actor Michael Collins. The theme for this year’s Traveller Pride Week is ‘A celebration of Traveller changemakers in Irish history’. Marc O'Sullivan Marc O'Sullivan

• An Irish man was arrested following the violent death of an Irish woman at a hotel in Salou.  
• St Michael’s College in Ballsbridge paid its respects to Andrew O’Donnell and Max Wall, two recently graduated secondary school students who died on the Greek island of Ios over the weekend. 
• Gardaí investigating an alleged assault in Donegal recovered a body in the water off the cliffside at Sliabh Liag.   
• Broadcasters at RTÉ should have their salaries capped at €195,000, according to proposed legislation down for debate in the Seanad this week.
• Taylor Swift fans who booked accommodation at a Dublin hotel to attend the singer’s concerts in the capital next year had their bookings cancelled over the weekend. 
• A report accused the Department of Defence of operating “secret laws” and for having a “silly and facetious approach” to membership of representative bodies by military personnel.
• A man was remanded in custody after he was charged in connection with a crash in Fermoy, Co Cork in which a man died at the weekend
• A Wexford woman acted as a hostage in a petrol station robbery before going to same flat as robber, a court heard.
• A sex offender who raped a woman after a night out and who attempted to lure a second woman into his car the following night was jailed for 10 years. 

WORLD

#RUSSIA An international investigation office, seen as a “truly historic” first step towards a possible trial of Russia’s leadership, was opened in The Hague with the aim of probing a crime of aggression against Ukraine.

#MIGRANT DROWNINGS Turkey accused Greece of “pushing back” three overloaded dinghies carrying 95 migrant people from its shores. 

#HONG KONG Police have offered bounties for information leading to the capture of eight prominent democracy activists based abroad and wanted for national security crimes. 

#PALESTINE A large-scale military raid by Israel including drone strikes and hundreds of troops in the northern occupied West Bank resulted in the killing of eight Palestinians in what the army labelled an “extensive counterterrorism effort.”

PARTING SHOT

The first supermoon of 2023 will be visible later tonight, and again tomorrow night in case this evening doesn’t suit.

The first of four such lunar events this year, the July Supermoon is also known as the Buck moon because this is the month when male deer grow antlers.

A supermoon rises over Poolbeg Lighthouse in May 2020. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

According to NASA, a supermoon occurs when the moon’s orbit is closest to the Earth at the same time as a full moon which makes the moon appear 14% larger and 30% brighter than normal.

Astronomy Ireland urged the public to send photographs of the supermoon rising at approximately 10:45pm tonight, or tomorrow night at 11:20pm.

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