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

IRELAND

Puppet Bosco talking to the media while attending the 40th Anniversary of the Dart, at Grand Canal Dock Railway Station. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• The Irish Airline Pilots’ Association (IALPA) voted to accept a Labour Court recommendation to increase their pay by 17.75%.
• Tributes have been paid to 11-year-old Clodagh Phelan who died in Majorca, Spain after falling from a balcony at her hotel in Alcudia yesterday.
• Mary Lou McDonald said if the decision was being made again about setting up of a centre to house asylum seekers in Coolock, she wouldn’t choose the area.
• Five-time All-Ireland winning Limerick hurler, Kyle Hayes, appeared in court today, charged with dangerous driving.
• South Dublin native Niall Kieran died while on a cycling holiday in the French Pyrenees.
• The Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh said he “shares” the feelings of “anger and profound distress” around the multiple child sexual abuse allegations made against former bishop Eamonn Casey.
• The United Nations must make its reports into the death of Private Sean Rooney available to his inquest, a solicitor representing his family said.
• A man proclaimed himself “innocent” this evening after a jury convicted him of murdering Thomas ‘Tom’ Dooley in “an honour killing” during a Co Kerry funeral.
• Transport Minister Eamon Ryan said a planning decision on the DART Plus West upgrade was due “any day soon” but that the service also needed to be introduced in other cities – mentioning Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway.
• The version of events given by a garda accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a Co Wicklow garda station is like “badly-written erotica”, a jury was told.

INTERNATIONAL

File image of Kimberly Cheatle

#RESIGNATION: US Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle resigned after the assassination attempt against former US president Donald Trump. 
#US ELECTION: Kamala Harris said she is “proud” to have earned enough support from Democratic delegates to become the party’s presidential nominee.
#BIDEN IS BACK: Joe Biden returned to the White House today after spending nearly a week at his personal residence recovering from Covid – it also marks a first return to Washington since dropping his re-election bid on Sunday.
#CLIMATE CHANGE: Sunday was the hottest day in recorded human history globally, data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service confirmed.
#STRICTLY: The Director General of the BBC apologised to Strictly Come Dancing contestants who have had an experience that “hasn’t been wholly positive”.

PARTING SHOT

US Vice President Kamala Harris Alamy Alamy

Are you having a brat summer?

Kamala Harris is. Instant glow up from vice president to presumptive Democratic nominee for president? That’s brat. Charli XCX confirmed it.

Wait, sorry. What?

Remember in the 2008 US election when there were think pieces about how Barack Obama was with the times because he was sending texts to young people to try to get them to vote?

This is the 2024 version of that, except Kamala Harris is brat, and it’s a Kamalanomenon, and no we did not just fall out of a coconut tree – and if these things make no sense to you, we’re going to try to explain it here.