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

IRELAND

Lieutenant Michaeli Byrne on her horse River Derg pictured at the launch of the RDS Dublin Horse Show. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• Ryan Tubridy and his agent Noel Kelly appeared before the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee to answer questions about undisclosed payments made to the star presenter by RTÉ. 
• Look back on the main points of Tubridy’s appearance here.
• And here’s a look at some of the standout moments, from the enlightening to the bizarre, arising from this morning’s hearing.
• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar stressed the government’s “progress” on tackling the housing crisis as he defends the lifting of the eviction ban.
• Four gardaí who have been suspended since 2020 will learn next week if a judge will allow their suspensions to be lifted while the High Court considers a judicial review of their cases.
• Just 27 out of 3,000 rooms in the National Children’s Hospital have been completed.
• Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue has said practices uncovered in an RTÉ Investigates report on the dairy industry are “utterly unacceptable, and in some instances unlawful”.
• Cabinet approved a non-statutory inquiry into the historical use of sodium valproate, prescribed as an anti-epilepsy drug to women while pregnant.
• Enoch Burke’s bid for an injunction restraining the hearing of his appeal against his dismissal from his job as a teacher at Wilson’s Hospital Secondary school is to be contested by an appeals panel.
• A court heard that a teenager was “caught red-handed” with €650,000 worth of cannabis in his luggage after landing at Dublin Airport on a flight from Los Angeles.  

INTERNATIONAL

A view of BBC Broadcasting House in central London. (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

#BBC The broadcaster has been asked to pause its investigation into allegations that a presenter paid a teenager for explicit images, following a meeting with the Metropolitan Police.

#UKRAINE Volodymyr Zelenskyy launched a furious broadside against his nation’s NATO allies as they began a summit still unsure how to advance Kyiv’s membership bid.

#REMEMBRANCE Thousands of people from Bosnia and abroad have gathered in Srebrenica for an annual ritual commemorating the 1995 massacre in the town. 

#TASER DEATH The family of a 95-year-old great-grandmother who died after being tasered by Australian police are to sue the state government in New South Wales.

PARTING SHOT

The result of a soccer game has been misleadingly shared online to suggest the US women’s national side lost 12-0 to a lower-league men’s side.

It took place between a side of US women and a team called the Wrexham Red Dragons has been, but was part of a competition which are essentially considered friendlies: there are 20-minute halves, no throw-ins, no offside restrictions and seven players to a side.

In this FactCheck from Shane Raymond, it’s noted that despite being part of an unofficial tournament, the result of one game has been cited online in arguments disparaging women’s sport, and used to suggest that trans athletes shouldn’t be able to participate in women’s sport. 

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