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

IRELAND

Stephen Rooney and Eoin Mahon from Kildare cooking food while at the Electric Picnic art and muscial festival in Stradbally Co Laois Sasko Lazarov Sasko Lazarov

• A 16-year-old boy has appeared in court in Galway over the stabbing of an Army chaplain at Renmore Barracks on Thursday night.
• A new synthetic benzodiazepene caused the recent overdoses in Portlaoise Prison which hospitalised twelve prisoners. It is the first time the drug has been found in Ireland.
• One man has died following a collision involving a car and a truck on the N7 westbound this morning.
• The HSE has issued a warning after high-strength MDMA has been causing fits at Electric Picnic. They warned festival goers to be cautious of the drugs they take.
• Irish -Palestinian Zak Hania, who was reunied with his family in May after being trapped in Gaza, has cancelled a podcast recording appearance at Electric Picnic following the news that one of his family members was killed in Gaza.
• Sinn Féin said that it will introduce an NCT-like inspection system for landlords if they enter government. The pledge is part of a full plan on housing that will be published next month.
• A man has barricaded himself inside a hostel in Waterford for over a week, due to a dispute over a fire alarm. The man claimed that he was falsely accused of setting off the alarm, and has refused requests to leave.
• The family of two-year-old Maebhe Gorman, who died of metachromatic leukodystrophy on 5 August, have called on the HSE to facilitate earlier diagnoses by screening newborns.

INTERNATIONAL

Palestinian women weep on a truck as they evacuate a school that had been a shelter in eastern Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Friday Abdel Kareem Hana / AP/PA Images Abdel Kareem Hana / AP/PA Images / AP/PA Images

#GAZA: 15 people from the same family were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, as US President Joe Biden claims that a ceasefire is ‘closer than ever’.

#FARAGE: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the UK’s highest-earning MP, receiving over €115,000 from his work with GB News, as well as nearly €25,000 from other sources. This is one top of an MP’s wage of over €105,000, plus expenses.

#PELOSI: Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has said that some of the tactics of Donald Trump are similar to those of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. She referred specifically to what she called his attempts to delegitamise the press.

#WHITEHOUSERACE: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris held competing rallies in the US state of Pensylvania today, as Harris prepares to head to Chicago for the Democratic Party Conference.

#KURSK: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian forces in Kursk are strengthening their positions, but that they are still defending from Russian advances elsewhere in the theatre.

PARTING SHOT

As X announces that it will be ceasing its domestic operations in Brazil as a result of a local judicial ruling, Elon Musk continues to draw the ire of lawmakers for his apparent use of his social media acquisition to promote his own political views.

In this long read from the Financial Times, Hannah Murphy looks at who exactly is afraid of Elon Musk.