NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
Myles Smith performs at half-time during the NFL International match at Croke Park in Dublin. Alamy Stock Photo
Alamy Stock Photo
INTERNATIONAL
A Michigan State Trooper stands guard along McCandlish Road near a shooting that took place at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Alamy Stock Photo
Alamy Stock Photo
#UNITED STATES: At least one person is dead after a “horrendous shooting” at a Mormon church in Michigan.
#GAZA: More than 66,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, Gaza’s Health Ministry has said, a day before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to the White House for talks with US President Donald Trump on halting the ongoing war in Gaza.
#CHINA: China’s former agricultural minister was sentenced to death on Sunday on corruption charges, with a two-year reprieve, a court statement said.
PARTING SHOT
A MAN WHO has spent forty years tending to the graves of the only two victims of the Air India disaster who were left unclaimed has been honoured by an Indian cultural group in Cork.
All 329 passengers and crew on board Air India flight 182 were killed on 23 June, 1985 when a bomb exploded on board the aircraft as it cruised some 190km off the south west coast of Ireland on route from Montreal to Delhi.
Most of the dead were of Indian descent. Annu Alexandra, who was originally from Kerala in India, and her daughter Rena were among the victims. The bodies of her husband and son were never recovered.
Finbarr Archer, who was working for an undertaker at the time of the terrorist attack, has tended to the graves of the mother and daughter ever since.
