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

IRELAND

Philippa Lacey, age 7, from Wexford, looking at portraits of horses at the first day of the Dublin Horse Show in the RDS. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• A second breach of sensitive PSNI information was confirmed, which came on foot the police service declaring a “critical incident” after a major data breach resulted in personal and employment data of all staff being published online.
• Leo Vardkar said “alternatives” and a “Plan B” will need to be considered if Stormont is not restored by the autumn.
• The HSE said that the Eris variant of Covid-19 has been detected in Ireland.
• The competition regulator said it will carry out an in-depth investigation into the proposed acquisition by Dublin Airport of a privately-owned car park near the site.
• An Irish man is in intensive care following a one-punch attack outside a McDonald’s in Australia.
• A 21-year-old who allegedly “dragged” the owner of a Porsche 911 from his sports car in south Dublin before it was driven erratically around the city and crashed has been denied bail.
• The Department of Finance ruled out any Government intervention with the interest rates Irish banks are currently paying savers.
• Former presidential candidate Peter Casey was abusive, bullying and “almost violent” at a meeting two years ago where he fired an executive of his recruitment company, the Labour Court heard. 
• An eight-year-old girl died in a road traffic collision in Carrickfergus, Co Antrim
• GAAGO announced it will stream the NFL pre-season games of the Pittsburgh Steelers this month. 
• Retained firefighters are set to escalate their strike action arising from staffing concerns. 
• A more than 1,000-year-old monument in Glendalough was damaged by fire in what appeared to have been an act of vandalism.

WORLD

Singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez who died today aged 81. Evan Agostini / Invision/AP Evan Agostini / Invision/AP / Invision/AP

#JOE BIDEN A man accused of making threats against the US president was shot and killed by FBI agents hours before the president was expected to land in the state.

#FRANCE Eleven people have died in eastern France after a fire tore through a holiday lodging being used by a group of adults with learning disabilities. 

#SHIPWRECK Forty-one migrants, including three children, are feared dead after a shipwreck last week in the Mediterranean, according to UN agencies.

#SUGARMAN Singer and songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, who came to prominence through the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man decades after he released music, has died aged 81.

PARTING SHOT

A tweet an Independent senator made a number of false and inaccurate claims about garda recruitment and retention numbers.

Senator Sharon Keogan responded to a tweet from the official Twitter account of An Garda Siochána, in which she claimed that five trainee gardaí had resigned in the three days following the Garda Commissioner’s visit to the Garda College in Templemore. 

Cormac Fitzgerald looks at the claim for The Journal’s FactCheck and lays out how the senator’s tweet was inaccurate. You can read it here.