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

IRELAND

South Korean prime minister Lee Nak-yeon meets Leo Varadkar today in Dublin Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Minister for Health Simon Harris will bring proposed abortion legislation to the Dáil before the summer recess.
• Gardaí are investigating after a man tried to “pull woman to ground” in an early morning south Dublin attack.
• Bishop of Elphin Kevin Doran has said that voting Yes in the Eighth Amendment referendum was “a sin” and those who did so should consider going to confession.
  
• The family of Ana Kriegel wants mourners to wear “sparkle and colour” to her funeral.
• There’s been a call for Tasers and bodycams as 12 gardaí a week are injured on duty.
• Actor Patrick Fitzpatrick, (Zumo Bishop on Fair City), who punched and bit his former partner, has been spared a jail sentence.
• A number of High Court challenges have been brought against a housing development beside St Anne’s Park in Dublin.
• Gardaí made an appeal for the public’s help in finding a missing Wicklow teenager.
• Campaigner Tara Flynn said she “can’t accept” €7,000 raised in an online campaign.
• There were delays on the Luas red line this evening after a car parked on a section of track near Jervis.

INTERNATIONAL

Emmanuel Macron and Mamadou Gassama at the Elysee Palace today, after the latter saved the life of a child. Pool / ABACA Pool / ABACA / ABACA

#WALSALL:  An elderly man died after his vehicle was submerged in floodwater in England.

#SPIDERMAN: A ‘hero’ Malian immigrant who saved a child dangling from a balcony is to get French citizenship.

#PLASTIC: The European Commission has proposed that single-use plastics such as straws, cotton buds and cutlery be banned across the European Union.

PARTING SHOT

Should we trust our gut feelings?

That’s the question posed in this piece on the BBC today.

Its verdict? Maybe we actually should…

http://www.thejournal.ie/tasers-bodycams-4041000-May2018/

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