Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday

11 Aug 2026, 19:31 by Jane Moore, https://www.thejournal.ie/author/jane-moore/ · TheJournal.ie

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

A man cycling past Pigeon House power station at Bull Wall in Clontarf, Dublin. Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ieLeah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

Wednesday’s eclipse is to cover up to 98% of the sun in parts of Ireland – here’s everything you need to know on how to see it.
A cyclist in her 80s died from the injuries she sustained after she was hit by a truck in Co Kildare on Monday.
Met Éireann issued a 48-hour high temperature warning for all of Leinster and Co Tipperary.
Passengers were evacuated from a Dublin Bus that caught fire in the Donnybrook area.
The mother of a man who was injured after a collision involving a car driving the wrong way on the M50 said there “has to be consequences for what’s happened”.
The DPP faces a strike-out deadline to issue directions over a civil servant accused of passing sensitive government information to a hostile foreign power.
Applications will open later this month for 25 “affordable” homes in Co Kildare, with prices starting at over €243,000 for a one-bed apartment.
The 67th Rose of Tralee festival will begin this week, with 32 contestants from Ireland and across the globe competing for the crown.
Dublin City Council appointed a contractor to deliver the capital’s new City Library, with construction to begin “in the coming weeks”.

INTERNATIONAL

Residents and rescue workers searching through the rubble after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia. Alamy Stock PhotoAlamy Stock Photo

#SOUTH AMERICA: The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck Colombia rose to 240.

#AL-ASSAD: A Syrian court sentenced former ruler Bashar al-Assad to death after a trial in absentia, convicting him of atrocities committed during the country’s nearly 14-year civil war.

#UKRAINE: Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least nine people overnight and wounded dozens.

#CANCER: Lucy Davis, who played Dawn Tinsley in the UK series The Office, said that she has “incurable” cancer.

#CARTED AWAY: US president Donald Trump was secretly moved from one aircraft to another, concealed in a catering container, upon his departure from Turkey last month due to Iranian threats against him, it has been reported.

PARTING SHOT

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Fota Wildlife Park has announced the birth of a male Indian rhino, only the second such animal to be born in Ireland.

The calf was born on 13 July to mother Maya and father Jamil, following a gestation period of over 16 months - and Fota has invited visitors to help name him.