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

IRELAND

Emergency services at the scene of an explosion at a service station in Creeslough, Co Donegal. Joe Dunne Joe Dunne

• Multiple injuries have been confirmed following a major explosion at a service station in Donegal.
• A man appeared at Kenmare District Court this morning charged with the murder of his brother in a graveyard earlier this week.
• A military flight landed this afternoon in Ireland carrying four Ukrainian soldiers and one Irish citizen who will be treated at Irish hospitals.
• Two people were charged in connection with the murder of a four year old boy in Limerick last year.
• A woman died and a man was seriously injured after they were struck by a car in Co Laois this afternoon.
• Simon Coveney said that politicians may need to “surprise people” to resolve the dispute over the Northern Ireland Protocol.
• Two companies were fined by a court a total of €225,000 after pleading guilty to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act that led to the drownings of two stonemasons in Limerick City, seven years ago.
• A revised pay deal was accepted by public service workers. 
• Almost 8,500 students made appeals against close to 19,000 individual results in this year’s Leaving Cert exams, with more than one in five being upheld.

INTERNATIONAL

Rescuers work at the site of a multiple S-300 missile strike by the russian troops on Zaporizhzhia. ABACA / PA Images ABACA / PA Images / PA Images

#ZAPORIZHZHIA The death toll from a Russian missile attack on apartment blocks in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has risen to 11 as the city was hit again by missiles and — for the first time — by explosive-packed drones.

#TORIES Conservative minister Conor Burns has been sacked from the British government following a complaint of “serious misconduct”.

#NURSERY ATTACK Devastated families in in north-eastern Thailand have been mourning the nursery school children and other victims killed by a sacked police officer in the nation’s deadliest shooting rampage.

#NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights organisation ‘Memorial’, and the Ukrainian human rights organisation ‘Center for Civil Liberties’ were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

#EUROVISION Liverpool has been confirmed to host the Eurovision Song Contest next year.