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

IRELAND

Gardaí and the OPW have opened investigations into vandalism done to a Carrowkeel passage tomb in Sligo, discovered on Saturday. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

• A status orange rain warning has been issued for Cork, Waterford and Kerry tomorrow.
• Dolphins swam down the River Lee in Cork on Saturday evening, to the pleasure of many onlookers.
• The National Monument Service could consider closing public access to historic sites after a neolithic tomb was vandalised. Gardaí and OPW are investigating.
• Two brothers have been jailed for the sexual assault of their cousin, when she was a child, for a total of seven years.
• Tánaiste Micháel Martin said funding for the HSE “needs examination”, amid criticism levelled at the Government over the amount of money given for next year.
• Motorists could face higher penalty points during Bank Holiday weekends under new legislation being proposed this week.
• A last ditch attempt to prevent voluntary and community health workers from striking tomorrow took place in the Workplace Relations Commission today.
• The health watchdog published 50 unannounced inspections reports which found one Dublin nursing home only bathed their residents on set days.
• The national energy grid is expected to face a shortfall in demand compared to supply this winter but at a much lower rate than recent years.
• Around 40 Irish citizens require evacuation from The Gaza Strip, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said today.

INTERNATIONAL

Polish Andrzej Duda casting his vote in the country's largest elections since the end of communism yesterday. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#POLAND The pro-EU oppositional party is set to win a parliamentary majority, partial results show, in Poland’s general election, which saw a huge turnout.

#US The judge who is overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion case has  barred him from making statements about prosecutors, possible witnesses and her staff.

#GAZA Hospitals in the Gaza Strip are on the brink of collapse as supplies and electricity begin to run out.

#ROME President Michael D Higgins hit out at ‘dysfunctional food systems’ in World Food Forum address in Rome today, Diarmuid Pepper reports from Rome.

PARTING SHOT

The Lord Mayor of Dublin Daithí de Róiste attended the launch of Public Access Defibrillators at all the DFB's stations at Finglas Fire Station today. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

In support of international ‘Restart a Heart’ day, Dublin Fire Brigade unveils fourteen new Public Access Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) located prominently outside each of its fire stations across the city and county. 

There is a simultaneous unveiling of the AEDs across all fourteen locations, and we are joined at Finglas Fire Station by Dublin Lord Mayor Daithí de Róiste. 

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