A Raise the Roof event to publicise the housing protest to be held at the end of the month heard that the Government’s strategy to private developers to provide most of the homes included in their targets was not going to work, and that more radical action was needed to prevent homelessness from rising.

Elsewhere, the Garda Representatives Association has agreed to approach the Minister for Justice about its “grave concerns” over the Garda Commissioner Drew Harris’s attitude to rosters.

The architects of the Paris agreement have urged world leaders to reach an ambitious sister deal for nature at the Cop15 biodiversity conference this December while warning that limiting global heating to 1.5C is impossible without protecting and restoring ecosystems.

Former US President Donald Trump has said he will officially mount a third campaign for the White House, launching an early start to the 2024 contest.

And the total hours that Finns spent on both domestic and paid work were the same for men and women in 2021 for the first time, Statistics Finland have revealed. The total daily working time for the population over the age of 10 - combining both paid employment and domestic work - was nearly identical for women and men for the first time ever.

Finally, three days after Banksy debuted his latest mural on Instagram, spray painted on the wall of a bombed building in the city of Borodianka, Ukraine, the anonymous street artist confirmed that he completed seven new works in Ukraine in total, and you can view them all here.