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

People enjoying themselves at Burrow Beach in the sunny weather. Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Tributes have been paid to Jamey Carney, the woman who was found dead at a house in Killarney yesterday. 
• The state has purchased a site on O’Connell Street to facilitate the development of the MetroLink project.
• Another leak into the River Liffey has been discovered close to the Samuel Beckett Bridge, The Journal has learnt.
• The Taoiseach has said he hasn’t seen a report that claimed hare coursing contributes €70 million to the Irish economy annually, as TDs gear up to vote on whether to ban the practice.
• Temperatures are to continue to rise this weekend, with Friday and Saturday set to get the most heat.
• A jury in the trial of a 17-year-old charged with the murder of a Cork postman has failed to reach a verdict after deliberating for 18 hours and 18 minutes.
• Two men have been jailed for five years for their involvement in violence in Dublin city centre on the night of St Valentine’s Day last year.
• Re-Turn has said that the recycling rates of plastic bottles has increased to over 90% since the introduction of the deposit return scheme.
• The Football Association of Ireland should be “brave” and refuse to play the Nations League fixtures against Israel, an Irish MEP has said. 

INTERNATIONAL

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets US president Donald Trump at the NATO Summit in Ankara. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#STRAIT OF HORMUZ: US president Donald Trump has said that the ceasefire with Iran is “over” and that he “doesn’t want to deal with them anymore, they’re scum”.

#UKRAINE WAR: The European Parliament has passed a non-binding vote calling for a ban on the export of all alumina to Russia, in a move that increases pressure on the Irish Government in relation to Aughinish Alumina in Limerick. 

#ANKARA: Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump held a meeting and fielded questions from the media at a Nato summit in Turkey today, during which the US president said their relationship is better now than it was when they met in the Oval Office last year.

PARTING SHOT

“Down the country recently, in a large, well-run, locally-loved supermarket, it might as well have been a pigsty for the amount of slop you had to trudge through.

The shop floor is absolutely littered in AI generated posters.

The bakery, the deli, the coffee dock, the fishmonger, the butcher counter, every section, another AI print-out proudly displayed. All from the same generic template.”

You can read Patrick Hanlon’s article on why food businesses should ditch AI slop here.