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

IRELAND

A sunset in Kinvara, Co Galway Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

• People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy made a complaint to Sipo over the allegations that Fianna Fáil junior minister Niall Collins pushed for the sale of Limerick County Council land that his wife subsequently purchase.
• Gardaí released without charge a man who was arrested yesterday in connection with a probe over a party where Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch was present.
• The three victims of a collision in Co Tyrone yesterday were named locally as Dan McKane, Christine Duffy, Julia McSorley – a brother and sister and their aunt, respectively.
• The government has finally published a long-delayed 30-year climate strategy, laying out sector-by-sector plans for how to drive down greenhouse gas emissions.
• The number of people in homelessness has risen to a record high, with 11,988 people accessing emergency accommodation in March, according to the latest figures.
• Referees in Kilkenny will not officiate matches this Bank Holiday weekend in protest at growing levels of abuse.
• Former Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said that the media and others tried to “oversimplify” Covid-19 but that “no pandemic plan” that could have prepared the country for the crisis. 

THE WORLD

The aftermath of a strike in Ukraine PA PA

#UKRAINE Russian strikes battered cities across Ukraine, killing at least 19 people.

#SUDAN 163 Irish citizens and their families have been evacuated from Sudan as fighting raged.

#SWITZERLAND The head of Switzerland’s central bank aid that the country’s banking regulations needed toughening up after the implosion of Credit Suisse, which could have “easily” caused a global financial crisis.

PARTING SHOT

The latest episode of the The Journal’s podcast The Explainer is out now with Jehanne Henry, a human rights lawyer based in East Africa, diving into Sudanese politics and her insight into how the tentative peace fell apart in recent years.

Here’s how to listen.