Headlines tonight: Limerick legend opens up about alleged headbutt by contract slinger; Death of mother of three who died by suicide ‘could have been avoided’

Here are the most important news articles of the evening.

Man injured in daylight in supermarket car park

Gardaí are at the scene of the alleged shooting that took place in a supermarket car park in north Dublin tonight.

Ireland and Europe are at risk of a new Covid surge, two new worrying variants explained

The new variants of concern are BA.4 and BA.5, which were first spotted in South Africa in January and February this year. They have led to a further outbreak of infection.

‘It’s poor judgment and he probably made the wrong decision’ – Limerick legend Ciarán Carey on the contract slinger’s alleged headbutt

Carey believes the player involved – particularly given the proximity of Limerick’s final round-robin game against Clare at Cusack Park on Sunday – exhibited “poor judgement” after being “in the wrong place at the wrong time”.

Man to 11 years in prison for raping his foster daughter 1,000 times

Kelly Kemmy, 24, who decided to give up anonymity to name Stephen Murray, 56, her foster father and abuser, said she was raped a thousand times from the age of 11 to when she was 18.

Death of mother-of-three Orlaith Quinn, who died by suicide two days after giving birth, ‘could have been avoided’

The death of a woman who took her own life could have been avoided hours after a psychiatrist said she was no danger to herself, was told to her inquest.

Israeli forces march in and beat mourners at the funeral of a shot dead Palestinian journalist

Inside Niall Horan’s Mullingar mansion, which is selling for €775,000

Horan paid an estimated €465,000 for the six-bedroom Mullingar property, previously listed in 2011 for €1.6 million.

The British asylum seeker says his friends are fleeing to Ireland to avoid being sent to Rwanda as part of new plans

An Afghan asylum seeker in the UK has claimed some of his friends are fleeing to Ireland to avoid being sent to Rwanda under the UK government’s controversial flagship policy.