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

VP Welfare and Equality officer Lauren English Adams protesting outside the Dáil over funding of purpose built student housing. Sam Boal Sam Boal

IRELAND

• Students are to sleep outside the Dail tonight to highlight the accommodation crisis. 
• Four people were taken to hospital after a light aircraft crash on a Wexford beach.
• The Tánaiste hinted at a minimum wage increase due to the rising cost of living. 
• A man is in serious condition following an assault in Waterford. 
• School stakeholders met to discuss the new policy around close contacts in primary schools.
• Health officials confirmed 1,355 new cases of Covid in Ireland. 
•  A man was arrested as part of the investigation into the murder of Lyra McKee.
• An internal garda investigation has been launched after it emerged a further 53 emergency calls were cancelled. 
• The government has appointed an independent group to track progress on ending Direct Provision. 
• Dublin City Council has approved three nights of concerts in Croke Park next September, when Garth Brooks is expected to perform.

WORLD 

#LONDON: Police believe Sabina Nessa was murdered as she took a five minute walk from her home to meet a friend.

#MIGRANT CRISIS: The US special envoy to Haiti resigned over migrant expulsions. 

#LEGACY: Melvin Van Peebles, the ‘Godfather of modern Black cinema’, died aged 89.

#COHESION: The EU is to impose a universal phone charger for smartphones in all member states. 

PARTING SHOT

Fota Wildlife Park welcomed five cheetah cubs and a competition to give them names is open to members of the public.