NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news…

Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Street performers launch Laya Healthcare's City Spectacular, which takes place in Dublin this weekend Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRISH

• Dublin City Council’s potential solution to the Garth Brooks fiasco “will not be feasible”, according to Aiken Promotions.
• Enda Kenny says he’s getting on “very well” with the Tánaiste as they work on the Cabinet reshuffle.
• A new Bill makes it compulsory for father’s names to be included on their child’s birth cert.
• Peace activist Margaretta D’Arcy, 80, is serving another prison sentence for her opposition to US military use of Shannon Airport.
• The Deparment of Transport has defended publicising an initiative to clampdown on rogue taxi drivers.
• Pews, statues and crosses in a church in Co Down have been damaged in an attack.
• Long-term mortgage arrears would take 33 years to clear at the current rate.

WORLD

AP / Press Association Images The view over Tel Aviv as an Iron Dome air defence system fires to intercept a rocket from the Gaza Strip. AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#CONFLICT: Air strikes on Gaza today killed 32 people.

#PLAGUE: A man and his dog in Colorado have been diagnosed with pneumonic plague.

#BULLS: A man who wrote a book about how to survive Pamplona’s running of the bulls has been gored during Pamplona’s running of the bulls.

INNOVATION

• NASA has captured amazing footage of a solar flare.
• Are you wearing Hollywood-inspired ‘expectancy spectacles‘?

PARTING SHOT

Today’s famous faces bear an uncanny resemblance to figures from the past… [Distractify]

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