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

IRELAND

Different generations getting recognised at the Public Relations Consultants Association awards: Chloe Kavanagh from Springboard Communications is pictured with her Rising Star Award, and Jim Walsh from Walsh PR pictured today with his Hall of Fame Award. Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Daa was slapped with an enforcement order by Fingal County Council after Dublin Airport breached the 32 million passenger cap twice.
• AIB has broken with tradition by withdrawing the maligned mandatory use of card readers for identity verification, replacing it with a new selfie check.
• Planning permission has been refused for the construction of a new filling station on the site of the 2022 Creeslough tragedy in Donegal, with An Coimisiún Pleanála claiming the proposed station would be “out of character” with the surroundings.
• Roscommon registered 29.6 degrees as today’s scorcher surpassed yesterday’s, which had been the hottest of the year.
• Three arrests have been made relating to vandalism worth €400,000 at an OPW site at Castletown House, Kildare which saw vehicles and facilities targeted in April and May.
• A dog walker was sentenced to three months in jail after being convicted of brandishing a knife at an asylum seeker in a Dublin migrant camp two years ago, with witnesses saying he was “chasing everybody in the place” with the weapon.
• Clifford’s Centra on Shandon Street in Cork city centre was revealed as the location where the winning ticket for this week’s record EuroMillions jackpot of €250 million was purchased.
• There was cross-border consensus a today’s meeting of the North South Ministerial Council that the rebuilding of Casement Park in Belfast must take place, with Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly saying “it’s now over to the GAA”.
• A shop has been cleared of discrimination allegations after a complaint was sent to the Workplace Relations Commission relating to two children from the Traveller community being asked if they had a larger sum of money than 10 and 20 cent coins to pay for €68 worth of goods.
• Nine injuries were reported at Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus on Wednesday, the third violent incident at the facility in ten days, as trade union Fórsa highlights “a situation that’s becoming more and more critical”.

INTERNATIONAL

A man is evacuated by an Israeli emergency team after an Iranian missile struck the northern port city of Haifa today. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#MIDDLE EAST Iran launched a fresh salvo of missiles against Israel on the eighth consecutive day of fighting which left 19 people injured in the Israeli port city of Haifa, an action described by the country’s foreign minister as “war crimes”.

#ASSISTED DYING England and Wales have taken a step closer to legalising assisted dying after proposed legislation allowing terminally ill adults with a life expectancy of less than six months to end their lives cleared the House of Commons.

#AIRBNB A court in Madrid has upheld a decision by the Spanish government to block almost 66,000 Airbnb rental listings that it said violated local rules, as Airbnb claims the decision is “a procedural ruling and not a decision on the merits” of Spain’s consumer rights ministry’s order.

PARTING SHOT

With all eyes of the world currently fixed on the visually captivating missile war between Iran and Israel, attention has inevitably turned away from the heavy casualties suffered by Palestinians in Gaza during the week.

While rolling events between the two arch foes have understandably been grabbing the headlines, you can be forgiven for not having heard that 60 people were killed in Gaza today alone, 31 of whom were seeking aid.

Yesterday, the civil defence agency said that Israeli forces had killed at least 72 people, including another 21 aid seekers near distribution sites.

Eimer McCauley breaks down the shocking figures from this 20-month bombardment campaign of the Gaza Strip by Israel.