Here's What Happened Today: Thursday

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

IRELAND

A mural in solidarity with Palestine on Bedford Lane in Dublin today. © RollingNews.ie © RollingNews.ie

• Ukrainians living in Ireland have expressed anxiety and frustration over the “shocking and frightening” events of recent days.
• Household staple like milk, butter, and potatoes have all seen significant price increases in the past year, according to the latest consumer price index figures from the Central Statistics Office.
• Five major opposition parties in the Dáil have completely rejected a proposal by the Government to rewrite procedural rules to put an end to the speaking rights argument.
• The High Court agreed to appoint provisional liquidators to the Irish branch of UK fashion retailer New Look, with over 300 workers facing redundancy.
• The Dáil heard that the families of those killed in the Creeslough explosion have been “re-traumatised” by the granting of planning permission to redevelop the site where their loved ones died.
• Bishop Willie Walsh, who undertook pilgrimage to apologise to Church’s abuse victims, has died at the age of 90.
• A number of staff at the Dublin office of TikTok are to lose their jobs in a global raft of redundancies.
• A cyclist in his 90s died after a collision that occurred at Moycullen, Co Galway. 
• Ronán Keating criticised Ireland’s “broken justice system” after a 22-year-old man received a suspended sentence for causing the death of his brother in a crash. 
• Gardaí have dropped push-ups and sit-ups from its physical entry test, saying that they no longer consider them a useful way of measuring applicants.

THE WORLD

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US envoy Keith Kellogg meet in Kyiv Evgeniy Maloletka / AP/PA Evgeniy Maloletka / AP/PA / AP/PA

#GAZA Tánaiste Simon Harris joined in on international condemnation of Hamas “parading” caskets at a handover ceremony of the bodies of young children.

#UKRAINE A security advisor for US President Donald Trump said it wants Ukraine to ‘tone down’ its ‘pushback’ against the US.  

#VATICAN Pope Francis was able to have breakfast in his armchair at the hospital this morning, the Vatican, a day after reporting a slight improvement in his condition.

#SPAIN A Spanish court convicted former football chief Luis Rubiales of sexual assault over his forced kiss to player Jenni Hermoso.

#SPACE The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5%, according to new calculations from NASA.

PARTING SHOT

The new episode of The Journal’s politics podcast The Candidate is out now. This week’s episode takes a look at the political reaction in Ireland to the questions over European defence in the face of chilly US-EU relations, calls for the use of counselling notes and character references to be banned in gender-based violence trials, the plans to allow more back-garden cabins to be built.