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

IRELAND

People at the Cost of Living protest demonstration makes its way through the city to Leinster House this afternoon. Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• A disagreement emerged between Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien, Dublin Airport and Ryanair as the Minister expressed his view that planes coming and going from Dublin Airport have been flying outside of agreed flight paths.
• New figures revealed that the surplus in public finances this year will be €9.620 billion.
• A doctor warned that health authorities’ guidance to pharmacists to prioritise patients with diabetes when dispensing Ozempic is causing “huge distress and anxiety” to people with obesity who have been prescribed it for weight loss.
• A service was held in memory of the 10 victims of the service station explosion in Creeslough, Co Donegal.
• A man appeared in court this afternoon after he was arrested by gardaí investigating the death of a man in Tralee, Co Kerry last year.
• Tánaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin condemned attacks by Hamas against Israel today, and called for an immediate cessation to violence.
• A man died after the car he was driving in veered off the road and entered a lake in Achill, Co Mayo.
• Protestors marched through Dublin city centre calling for measures to be introduced to help grapple with the spiralling cost-of-living crisis.
• Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan successfully defended his gold medal on the pommel horse at the Gymnastics World Championships in Antwerp. 

WORLD 

Rockets are launched by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip towards Israel. (Hatem Moussa / AP) (Hatem Moussa / AP) / AP)

#ISRAEL: At least 70 people were reported killed in Israel and Gaza authorities have reported a death toll of 198 people in the bloodiest escalation in the Israel-Palestinian conflict since May 2021.

#AFGHANISTAN: A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit western Afghanistan killing 14 and injuring 78, an official said, with predictions the toll could rise after reports of landslides and victims trapped under collapsed buildings.

PARTING SHOT

The MV Matthew – site of the historic drugs bust last week – is on the move.