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

IRELAND

Members of the Gardaí and Garda Forensics at a flat in Claddagh Court, Ballyfermot, where a man aged in his late 30s was found with an apparent stab wound. The injured man was treated at the scene by Emergency Services personnel but was pronounced dead a short time later. Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews / RollingNews

• The Taoiseach urged world leaders at COP27 not to waste any more time before taking action on the climate, telling them the situation is “urgent but not hopeless”.
• A man died after being stabbed in a flat in Ballyfermot. 
• A key committee in Dublin City Council voted in favour of making the pedestrianisation of Capel Street permanent.
• The Food Safety Authority listed the presence of live rodents to rusty utensils as among the reasons for closing four business premises last month.
• Three men who blackmailed a teenager by threatening to disclose explicit photographs from her OnlyFans account if she didn’t hand over €10,000 were sentenced at court. 
•  The jury began deliberations in trial of 16 year old accused of murdering Uransetseg Tserendorj.
• Dublin Bus and Go-Ahead Bus apologised for a deterioration in their their Real-Time Passenger Information (RTPI) systems and cancelled buses in recent months.
• The nurses union warned staff are working in “horrendous” conditions and are suffering from stress and burnout, as it emerged that more than 100,000 patients have been left waiting on trolleys this year. 
• 16 and 17 year olds can now pre-register online for voting. 
• The women’s national football team captain Katie McCabe said she would not have travelled to the upcoming men’s World Cup in Qatar if given the chance and won’t be watching the tournament.
• Two Dublin women arrested after a trip to Dubai launched a bid to halt a prosecution for a Covid-19 quarantine breach.
• A young man who “opportunistically” raped his friend after creeping into her bed in the middle of the night was jailed for four-and-a-half years.
• Gardaí arrested 28 people as part of a crackdown on burglary in south Dublin. 

THE WORLD

Protest banner unfurled aimed as demonstrations grow in football between the revived Super League and the World Cup in Qatar (Peter Byrne/PA)

#USA Voters are casting their ballots across the United States in crucial midterm elections that will decide who controls Congress.

#QATAR World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman called homosexuality a “damage in the mind” in an interview to be aired on German TV on Tuesday, sparking condemnation by Berlin.

#NORWAY The daughter of Norway’s King Harald, Princess Martha Louise, said she will no longer officially represent the royal house following “many questions” relating to her fiance, a self-described shaman. 

PARTING SHOT

Irish writer Anne Enright is to be honoured with the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2022 later this month. With that in mind, why not take a read of her sitdown with The Journal’s Aoife Barry in 2020, where she looked back on her time ruffling feathers as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction.