{"id":619271,"date":"2026-09-09T12:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/619271\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:10:21","slug":"heres-what-happened-today-tuesday-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/619271\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s What Happened Today: Tuesday \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today\u2019s news.\n<\/p>\n

IRELAND<\/p>\n

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\n Bergus Syatubotu, Musa Zulu, John Mputu and Belinda Kaputula stage Irish premiere of AFRONAUTS, the true story of Zambias forgotten space programme. Pictured ahead of show taking place at Civic Theatre Tallaght as part of Dublin Fringe Festival. RollingNews.ie<\/p>\n

RollingNews.ie\n<\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL<\/p>\n

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\n Portrait of Madame Pichon and Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano were among the paintings stolen, according to French newspaper Nice-Matin. Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n

Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n

#WEST BANK:\u00a0France and Canada will join the UK in announcing bans on products from illegal Israeli settlements<\/a> in occupied Palestine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

#US:\u00a0Lindsay Clancy\u2019s lawyer asked that she be pardoned by US President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#HARRY AND MEGHAN:\u00a0The UK\u2019S King Charles said his son Harry and the prince\u2019s wife Meghan are not to be considered \u201cworking members of the royal family\u201d after they moved back to Britain from the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#TRADE WAR:\u00a0Canada\u2019s retaliatory tariffs on billions of dollars in US products took effect on Tuesday, as a trade war between the North American neighbours heats up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#ART HEIST:\u00a0Two thieves broke into a museum dedicated to French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir<\/a> in southern France and stolen four artworks.<\/p>\n

#THE VOICE:\u00a0Tom Jones hit out at ITV for \u2018firing\u2019 him from his judging role on The Voice UK, claiming he was told the cost of insurance was too high<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PARTING SHOT<\/p>\n

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\n Charlie Byrne’s bookshop in Galway. alamy<\/p>\n

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Attention all readers and bookworms, the hunt is on to find Ireland\u2019s most loved bookshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The An Post Bookshop of the Year award celebrates the role of independent bookshops and local branches of bookshop chains in promoting literature within communities.<\/p>\n

Bookshop customers across Ireland have until midday tomorrow to nominate their favourite bookshop, which can be done or An Post website <\/a>or by scanning the QR code displayed on posters in participating bookshops.<\/p>\n

Public online voting will determine the 12 long listed Irish bookshops.<\/p>\n

These shops will then be invited to enter a written submission and will also receive visits from mystery shoppers.<\/p>\n

In October, the judges will narrow the field down to a shortlist of six finalists.<\/p>\n

Voting details can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today\u2019s news. IRELAND Bergus Syatubotu, Musa Zulu,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,13164,61,60,13165],"class_list":["post-619271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-evening-fix","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news-fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}