LAST UPDATE | 7 May
GOOD MORNING. Here’s all the news you need to know as you start your day.
The Israeli army has said it has established “operational control” over the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip overnight.
Footage broadcast on Israeli media showed an Israeli flag flying on the Gaza side of the crossing, though the Israeli army refused to comment on the flag.
The overnight assault came just hours after Hamas announcing its acceptance of an Egyptian-Qatari ceasefire proposal, and amid protests by Israelis demanding that their own government accept the truce so that hostages can be returned.
A former director of the now liquidated company behind an international language school which left students out of pocket is the head of Ireland’s new language school quality assurance scheme.
International House Galway went into liquidation while the head of new quality standards for the industry remained the majority shareholder.
As reported by Noteworthy, under the International Education Mark’s new rules, the director’s track record would likely rule her out of being qualified to run a certified language school.
With the first of a Eurovision semi-finals getting underway, Daragh Brophy has this rundown on everything you need to know about what’s happening on stage this week in Malmö in Sweden.
Bambie Thug takes to the stage in the semi-final tonight, with Johnny Logan set to feature in the interval act.
If the Macroom singer is successful, it will mean they’ll go through to represent Ireland at the finals on Saturday.
Trinity College Dublin has said it will set up a task force to consider links to Israeli universities and that it is divesting from investments in Occupied Palestinian Territories, in response to a camp-out protest on the ground of the university.
TCD also said it is supporting Palestinian scholars and will continue to support more, and said it supported the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on genocide.
A camp-out protest is ongoing on the grounds of the university, blocking access to the Book of Kells, with TCD Student’s Union president László Molnárfi this weekend telling TheJournal that it will continue “indefinitely”.
Two surgical hubs in Dublin are said to be “well underway” and due to start treating patients later this year.
Surgical hubs are designed to cut waiting lists for day procedures by delivering high volume, low complexity procedures.
Renovation work was needed at the Mount Carmel hub, which is a former private hospital that was purchased by the HSE in 2014, while the hub in the Swords Business Campus is a new building.
Other hubs in Cork, Galway, Limerick, and Waterford meanwhile are said to be at a “well advanced” stage and to be working on an “expedited schedule and due to start treating patients in 2025”.
Gardaí are continuing to investigate a fatal shooting in Drimnagh in Dublin.
Three men were arrested following the incident in the early hours of Monday morning.
A refrigerated container holding around €150,000 worth of meat was stolen over the weekend from a petrol station in Co Dublin.
The incident happened at the rear of a petrol station in Turvey, Donabate, Co Dublin at around 9am on Saturday.
The container was removed from the rear of the petrol station and attached to a Volvo truck cab.
What’s in a name? Recent years have witnessed debates leading to street renaming, as people question just who we remember and honour in our streetscapes.
In Dublin, Donal Fallon wonders how many walk Nassau Street “with any clue it honours the House of Orange-Nassau, to which King William III belonged” some centuries ago.
The historian looks at the reasons for street names in some of Dublin’s more notable areas.
Kyren Wilson survived a stirring fightback from qualifier Jak Jones to win the world snooker title for the first time at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
Wilson struggled to contain his emotions as he wrapped up an 18-14 triumph over Jones, who fought valiantly after losing the first seven frames of the final, and reeled off three frames in a row from 17-11 to give himself some hope of an improbable revival.
Victory sealed a timely return to form for Wilson, who had arrived for his 10th tilt at the title on the back of his worst campaign in a decade, a solitary semi-final at the German Masters put into perspective by illness and injury afflicting his young family.
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