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

IRELAND

Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Minister for Children Katherine Zappone, and Minister for Health Simon Harris at the launch of ‘First 5' Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• Players on the Irish soccer team will wear black armbands in respect of a fan who died yesterday morning in Copenhagen Harbour. 
• NUI Galway has experienced a potential data breach after a USB stick potentially storing a confidential file with students’ details went missing.
• A woman raped by a convicted sex offender who she met online has told a court she thought she would die during the attack.
• Vicky Phelan has been named by the BBC as one of the 100 most inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2018.
• Two killer whales have been spotted off the coast of Rockabill, Dublin. 
• Shoppers from the Republic of Ireland have spent €64.5 million on groceries in Northern Ireland over the past 12 months, the highest level in five years. 
• Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is to meet with Máiría Cahill at Leinster house tomorrow. 
• Two more men have been arrested as part of an investigation into money laundering. 

INTERNATIONAL

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaking at the CBI annual conference at InterContinental Hotel in London. Stefan Rousseau Stefan Rousseau

#POISON: A healthcare professional at a hospital in England has been arrested on suspicion of administering poison or a noxious substance to patients. 

#BREXIT: Spain has warned it could yet derail the Brexit deal agreed between London and Brussels if it does not guarantee Madrid’s veto over Gibraltar’s future status.

#ARRESTED: Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn is under arrest in Japan over allegations of financial misconduct and faces being fired this week

PARTING SHOT 

So, as noted above, two killer whales were spotted off the coast of Rockabill in Dublin over the weekend. 

One crew member out on a fishing vessel caught a snap of the pair.

Check it out: 

Killer whale sighting at Rockabill, Dublin James Mac Cluskey James Mac Cluskey

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