NEED TO CATCH UP? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

Volunteers Margaret Beere from Stoneybatter and Nuala Gillick from Lucan in Dublin city centre today for Daffodil Day Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Roscommon man John Tighe has been sentenced to murder over the death of his infant son.
• A Garda and former Tipperary hurling captain has been awarded €195,000 after suffering ‘devastating injuries’ in the line of duty.
• Belfast’s rugby rape trial has heard that the ‘morals of any person involved are completely irrelevant’.
• Two women killed in a crash in Ballinasloe have been named locally.
• The Russian ambassador to Ireland says that the expulsion of diplomats would be ‘an unfriendly action’.
• A couple in Kildare has been sentenced over ‘one of the largest welfare fraud cases in the state’.
• A woman is in a critical condition after being struck by a cyclist in south Dublin.

WORLD

French police secure the area in Carcassonne in the southwest of the country following a terror incident earlier today AFP / Getty Images AFP / Getty Images / Getty Images

#FRANCE: A policeman is in critical condition after swapping himself for a hostage in a French terrorist attack that killed three people.

#TARIFF WARS: China says it isn’t afraid of a trade war with the US after Donald Trump yesterday introduced giant tariffs on Chinese imports.

#BEVERLY HILLS: Meanwhile, Playboy model Karen McDougal claims that Donald Trump tried to pay her after the two had been ‘intimate’.

#MANCHESTER: A police officer who strangled his wife then texted her to make it look like he didn’t know she was dead.

PARTING SHOT

Daff Man James Gilleran was out and about in Dublin today – the 24th straight year he has donned his flowery suit in order to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society on Daffodil Day.

TheJournal.ie caught up with him for a chat.

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