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

Irish

An aerial view of Central Plaza Hines and Peterson Hines and Peterson

• The Irish bus and rail union has called for the Government to provide a dedicated transport police, following an unprovoked homophobic assault on a Dublin Bus last weekend.
• Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said that he has “full confidence” in Junior Minister Robert Troy, after he received scrutiny for not disclosing the sale of a property he owned to a local authority.
• Prospective tenants have expressed frustration at the current state of the rental market after they had to wait over an hour with dozens of other people for a house viewing.
• Government action to deal with the ongoing rental crisis may not exclusively be limited to Budget 2023, the Tánaiste indicated today.
• The HSE is aiming to inoculate 600 people against monkeypox in the first phase of the vaccine rollout.
• Garda representative groups are set to ballot their members on new proposed rosters that rank and file representatives have said are “adverse changes” to their conditions of employment
• Two Dublin councils have unveiled new plans to build 40,000 new homes in the western edge of the city over a 50-year period.
• A man has been charged with the manslaughter of Limerick City sportsman, Alan Bourke, who had been capped for Ireland in both soccer and rugby.

International

Liz Truss during a hustings event in Perth, Scotland, as part of the campaign to be leader of the Conservative Party and the next prime minister. PA / Jane Barlow PA / Jane Barlow / Jane Barlow

#CHENEY A top Republican Trump critic, Liz Cheney, will lose her seat in the US Congress but has said that she would do “whatever it takes” to prevent the former president from returning to power.

#LONDON An 87-year-old man was stabbed to death while travelling around London on his mobility scooter. He was named locally as Thomas O’Halloran, who was originally from Ennistymon in Co Clare.

#TORY LEADERSHIP Liz Truss has said that she would get both Sinn Féin and the DUP into powersharing if she became Prime Minister, with both her and Rishi Sunak backing the Northern Ireland Protocol bill.

Parting Shot

After a four year redevelopment, the former Central Bank in Dublin City centre has reopened to the public as Central Plaza.

Before it closed for development, the Central Bank was a popular meeting spot on Dame Street and College Green.

While the opening of the plaza did get some attention, social media was particularly caught up with the opening of a Krispy Kreme donut shop within the complex.

While queues outside the building were not as long as they were in Blanchardstown in 2018, there were queues out the door in the early hours of this morning.

Queues outside the new Krispy Kreme earlier today Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland