Morning briefing – Local Irish news
IRISH_TIMES - Adare hotel assaults: Bill and Alison Chawke, children of publican Charlie Chawke, will be sentenced on July 14 for unprovoked assaults on two men at the Dunraven Arms Hotel in 2023. - Rosslare drug seizure: Revenue seized about €3m of “Gelato”-branded cannabis from a truck arriving from Dunkirk at Rosslare Europort; a man in his 20s was arrested and detained under drug-trafficking legislation. - Cork murder trial: Prosecutors say three youths (one aged 21, two juveniles) acted in a joint enterprise in the fatal golf-club attack on Barry Daly (44) outside his home in Doneraile last October; all plead not guilty. - Teens and AI: NYCI research shows Irish youths as young as 13 fear AI could harm their future careers, with strong calls for better education and regulation; findings gathered via a citizens’ assembly-style forum at DCU. - Domestic violence case: Personal trainer John Peters (33) was jailed for two years and two months for assaults on his ex-partner and criminal damage to her phone in 2022–23. - Sophie Toscan du Plantier case: Shirley Foster, near neighbour who discovered Toscan du Plantier’s body in 1996 and a key witness in the case, has died in west Cork. - Exams: Leaving Cert English papers were widely viewed as fair and manageable; Paper 2 featured poets Paula Meehan and Elizabeth Bishop with no surprises. Home Economics was seen as challenging but fair at higher level. - Dublin stabbing investigation: A man has been charged with assault causing harm in connection with the fatal stabbing of student Qayyum Balogun (21) after a gig near Grafton Street. - Major fish kill: More than 20,000 fish were killed along 25km of the River Glyde (Monaghan/Louth) due to agricultural discharge, one of Ireland’s worst fish kills on record; the source has been halted.