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

IRELAND

The Taoiseach Micheál Martin and housing minister Darragh O’Brien provided an update on the government's Housing for All plan today. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• Tent accommodation in Meath will open on Monday to house refugees arriving from Ukraine.
• Support for the Government has dropped again amid an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, as Fine Gael drops to its lowest level since 1994.
• Cabinet agreed a ban on retail turf sales, while the smoky coal ban will be extended.
• Intense heat is on the way over this weekend and into next week.
• Russia switching off gas to Europe would present a “severe” risk to Ireland, the finance minister said.
• Three CBD and hemp oil products were recalled over ‘unsafe’ levels of THC.
• Dublin Zoo strongly denied animal welfare claims raised in Seanad.
• A well-known French actor claimed he is the victim of a €6 million fraud by an ‘Irish lord’.
• Michael Flatley’s spy film ‘Blackbird’ is set to be shown in Irish cinemas this autumn.

INTERNATIONAL

A baby stroller lies by a road after a deadly Russian missile attack in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, today. Efrem Lukatsky Efrem Lukatsky

#ITALY: Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella has refused to accept Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s resignation, in a political crisis experts warned could send the eurozone’s third largest economy to snap elections.

#UK: Former UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has come out on top in the second round of voting in the Tory leadership contest, with trade minister Penny Mordaunt once again in second place and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in third.

#MALI: The Malian military government has suspended all new rotations to a United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in the African country, including those already scheduled, for “national security” reasons.

#SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka’s president submitted his resignation shortly after reaching Singapore, the parliamentary speaker’s office has said, days after the head of state fled protests triggered by his country’s worst-ever economic crisis.

PARTING SHOT

Curious about what exactly is going on with Dublin’s metro? Well, the latest episode of The Explainer is just what you’re looking for to get up to speed on when (if ever) it will finally happen.