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

IRELAND

Senator Michael McDowell celebrates his No No victory with Mother's Day balloons Michael McDowell Michael McDowell

• Ireland voted against the 39th Amendment to the Constitution, meaning that the Family referendum has been defeated.
• There were almost 77,000 applications received by the Central Applications Office (CAO) for third-level courses by the 1 March closing date. 
• The wife of an Irish man stuck in Gaza has called on the government to help her husband escape.
• Mary lou McDonald has said Sinn Fein will “return to” considerations of the “sexist language” in the Constitution if the party is in the next government.
• The ISPCA is appealing to the public after a young, injured lurcher dog was found abandoned and tied to a gate in Co Longford. 
• A bat was discovered behind a door at the Limerick Racecourse count centre as counting staff were opening 288 ballot boxes and sorting through votes this morning.
• Taoiseach leo Varadkar has said Equality Minister Roderic O’Gorman does not need to resign over today’s results in the Family and Care referendums, despite calls from some opposition TDs.

INTERNATIONAL

Claudia Sheinbaum at the Morelos stadium, Mexico, where hundreds of supporters gathered to listen to her speech as part of her campaign for the presidency of the Republic Alamy Alamy

#AID SHIP Two hundred tonnes of food aid were “ready” to be sent from Cyprus to war-ravaged Gaza by sea, a Spanish NGO said, the first shipment along an EU-backed maritime corridor.

#MEXICO A helicopter carrying three National Guard members and a Border Patrol agent has crashed along the US-Mexico border, killing three people, Texas officials have said. 

#OH NO YOU DON’T US President Joe Biden has criticised election rival Donald Trump for meeting Viktor Orban, saying the Hungarian premier was “looking for dictatorship”.

PARTING SHOT

A man from Dublin told the Journal that while he was working at a voting station yesterday he witnessed a Padre Pio medal make its way into a ballot box. Today he found the box and will now return the medal, which had been passed down generations. Jane Matthews Jane Matthews

A man from Dublin told The Journal that while he was working at a voting station yesterday he witnessed a Padre Pio medal make its way into a ballot box.

Today he found the box and returned the medal, which had been passed down generations.