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

Ireland

the Nebraska Cornhuskers cheer squard performing for the public in Merrion Square Park, Dublin, today. Sam Boal Sam Boal

• SSE Airtricity has announced that they will be increasing the price of electricity by 35% and gas by 39% from 1 October.
• There were a record number of people accessing emergency accommodation last month, with 10,568 people reported as homeless in July.
• Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien has said that as part of potential reforms to ethics rules, politicians could be made declare any arrangements they have with local authorities.
• A woman in her 80s has been killed in a single car crash this morning in Midleton, Co Cork.
• The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) have called on the Government to “significantly improve” their public sector pay offer ahead of talks restarting next week.
• Gardaí seized combined drugs worth more than €122,000 and arrested three people following a search in Waterford City today.
• Sinn Féin has said it is “not acceptable” that one its TDs who owns a rental property had allowed the registration with the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) lapse.
• An Arrabawn Milk plant in Kilconnell, outside Ballinasloe, will close next year after a board decision yesterday approved the sale of the company’s liquid milk sales book to another company but didn’t include the east Galway plant.
• The parents of two boys with autism have told of their disappointment after it emerged the school they were supposed to start this September will not be ready until later this year. 

INTERNATIONAL

Rescue workers extinguish a fire caused from overnight shelling at the Slovyansk Chemical Mechanical College. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#NEW ZEALAND The bodies of two children who were found in suitcases earlier this month have been identified by police in New Zealand.

#TORY LEADER French President Emmanuel Macron has hit back against Tory leadership favourite Liz Truss, after she said that the “jury’s out” on whether the French leader was a friend of the UK.

#UKRAINE Ukrainian authorities have begun distributing iodine tablets to residents near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in case of a radiation leak, amid mounting fears that the fighting around the complex could trigger a catastrophe.

#TRUMP Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former US president Donald Trump’s Florida estate earlier this year contained documents with classification markings, according to an FBI affidavit released today explaining the justification for the search of the property this month.

#VACCINE Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna is suing Pfizer and the German drug manufacturer BioNTech, accusing its main competitors of copying Moderna’s technology in order to make their own vaccine.

PARTING SHOT

It was once lighters above our heads at gigs but now it’s video screen from mobile phones. 

Bob Dylan has had enough of it and he has banned telephones from his gigs – perhaps to get people to remember rather than record – it might hit some in the pocket though.

It is of course, for the most part, all to feed social media accounts.

Whatever the motive of Robert Zimmerman and his management team we decided to see what our readers thought of the move.  

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