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

IRELAND

People arriving at Electric Picnic this morning. Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Bord Gáis said the average electricity bill will increase by 34% and gas will go up by 39%.
• The High Court ordered the arrest of suspended teacher Enoch Burke who allegedly breached an injunction.
• The exchequer recorded a surplus of €6.3 billion ahead of the Budget.
• The National Indoor Athletics Training Centre will be made available to assist with emergency refugee accommodation.
• The ESB will lodge planning permission for a new gas-fired generator in Cork later this year.
• Fares on Nitelink bus services in Dublin will be reduced from tonight.
• August was hotter and drier than normal with 11 weather stations breaking temperature records.
• Gardaí are investigating after a car crashed into a hotel in Wexford last night.

INTERNATIONAL

Funeral workers carry a coffin with an unidentified civilian body at a funeral in Bucha, Ukraine, today. AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images

#RUSSIA: Russian energy giant Gazprom raised the possibility of a prolonged halt of natural gas supply through a key pipeline to Germany, citing the need for urgent maintenance work.

#BREXIT: Controversial legislation that would empower UK ministers to unilaterally override parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol is damaging trust and respect with the EU, Maros Sefcovic has said.

#TRUMP: FBI agents who searched former US president Donald Trump’s Florida home found empty folders marked with classified banners, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public by the Justice Department.

PARTING SHOT

Dingle has a cool new bus stop: tús Maith.... pic.twitter.com/tNEC6co8dw

— Peadar Ó Fionnáin (@PeadarDingle) September 1, 2022

A new bus stop has been erected in Dingle, Co Kerry, and it’s won a lot of fans on social media.

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