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

IRELAND

Tori Towey arrived back home in Ireland earlier today. Detained in Dubai Detained in Dubai

• Tori Towey arrived home to Ireland after Dubai authorities drop charges against her.
• Convicted soldier Cathal Crotty was discharged from Defence Forces today
• A civil servant has been renting in Department of Agriculture cottage for €2 a week for 12 years, the Public Accounts Committee was told.
• We were told that the Budget’s social welfare package will focus on vulnerable groups, including carers, those with a disability, working families and pensioners.
• The FAI insisted new Ireland Boss Heirmir Hallgrímsson was always the first choice for the job
• Fianna Fáil said it wants a court to sit 24/7 in Dublin to tackle anti-social behaviour
• Denis O’Brien said in Court the he wants Meta to provide information to him about ‘false and malicious’ ads using his image.
• The Taoiseach was asked why quarries and block manufacturers weren’t pursued over defective blocks scandal in the West and North of the country
• A bonfire with a mock police car on the top of it was labelled ‘absolutely disgraceful’ by the UUP leader
• The pilots’ union recommended its members accept a Labour Court 17.75% pay increase recommendation
• Tánaiste met the new Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn today at Hillsborough Castle
• The High Court appointed provisional liquidators to firms operating 11 health food stores
• An airspace off Clare will be closed to test high-tech military spec drones

INTERNATIONAL

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen on fire today in Normandy. Préfet de Normandie et de la Seine-Maritime Préfet de Normandie et de la Seine-Maritime

#LONDON: Colleagues and friends of victims in a crossbow attack in England paid tribute to the ‘lovely family’

#BRISTOL: Manhunt underway in Bristol after human remains discovered in suitcases

#SCOTLAND: 77 pilot whales died after a mass stranding off the Scottish coast

#WASHINGTON D.C.: British PM Keir Starmer discussed the importance of Nato alliance and the UK-US ‘special relationship’ during a meeting with Joe Biden

#TEXAS: Shelley Duvall, star of The Shining, died aged 75

#FRANCE: A fire broke out on the spire of Rouen’s famous Gothic cathedral 

PARTING SHOT

Dublin Airport today. © RollingNews.ie © RollingNews.ie

The wait has started for passengers, pilots, flight crews and Aer Lingus to see if members of the IALPA union will agree to a recommendation from the Labour Court that will entitle them to a 17.75% increase, over a four-year period.

The long-running pay dispute has seen Aer Lingus-IALPA pilots take part in work-to-rule action, eight-hour strikes and has resulted in the cancellation of nearly 600 flights.

The industrial action has now been suspended, as the members of the union cast their ballots on whether to accept or decline the Labour Court’s recommendation after union executives recommended to accept it yesterday. Read the latest here.