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

IRELAND

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney speaking outside Government Buildings. PA Images PA Images

• Leaders in Dublin expressed outrage at the UK’s decision to override the Northern Ireland Protocol, as outlined in a bill presented in the House of Commons today
• Stormont MLAs from Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Alliance Party ave joined together to write to Boris Johnson expressing their opposition to his government’s “reckless” Protocol bill
• Non-consultant hospital doctors voted in favour of industrial action due to a dispute over working conditions
• The Journal reported that dentists are continuing to drop out of the State’s medical card scheme, leaving older people and those in low-income households without access to basic oral healthcare.
• The families of nine people killed at Ballymurphy in Belfast in 1971 against the UK’s Ministry of Defence received “significant payment in damages” in civil cases settled today
• Five people were rescued from Carrauntoohil after they became stranded there last night
• The HSE announced that the emergency department in Our Lady’s Hospital Navan is to be replaced with a 24-hour Medical Assessment Unit and a Local Injury Unit

WORLD

People taking part in a vigil outside the Brazilian Embassy in London for Dom Phillips and Bruno Araujo Pereira last week. PA PA

#BRAZIL: Conflicting reports emerged over whether the bodies of missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira have been found

#UKRAINE: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country’s troops were fighting for “literally every metre” as they were pushed back from the centre of key industrial city Severodonetsk

#UAE: The United Arab Emirates banned Pixar’s Lightyear from cinemas over its inclusion of a lesbian kiss

#FRANCE: French President Emmanuel Macron and his allies commenced a crucial week of campaigning to save their parliamentary majority, after a first round of voting galvanised a newly formed left-wing alliance

PARTING SHOT

A survey has found that the number of litter blackspots in towns and cities around Ireland has dropped by 50%.

The latest survey from Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) shows Dublin, Limerick and Galway all making significant progress tackling rubbish.

Two-thirds of the 40 towns and cities surveyed were found to be clean. Naas retained its position at the top of the rankings, ahead of Letterkenny and Cavan.