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

IRELAND

Citizens' Assembly chairperson Ms Justice Mary Laffoy declaring the results of the ballots on the Eighth Amendment today. Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• The Citizens’ Assembly did not recommend the repeal of the Eighth Amendment, but instead said it should be replaced or amended.
• Two men died overnight in a house fire in Sligo.
• A man in his 40s died after a parachute jump went wrong at the Cliffs of Moher.
• Easons on Dublin’s O’Connell Street was evacuated due to a bomb scare.
• Health Minister Simon Harris has called for cool heads on the issues surrounding the new National Maternity Hospital.
• People took to the streets of Dublin, as part of thousands worldwide, in the March for Science.
• The company who constructed the balcony at Berkeley where five young Irish people died in 2015 has had its licence suspended for five years.
• Gardaí made an appeal for witnesses following a cash-in-transit robbery in north Dublin yesterday.

INTERNATIONAL

People taking part in the March for Science in Amsterdam today Paulo Amorim SIPA USA / PA Images Paulo Amorim SIPA USA / PA Images / PA Images

#AIRLINE AGGRO: An American Airlines worker has been suspended after footage showing him engage in a verbal confrontation with a passenger went viral.

#TOO LATE TO SAY SORRY: The Sun newspaper has apologised for its column on footballer Ross Barkley, and said “there was never any slur intended”.

#PARIS: There was panic at a Paris train station after a man wielding a knife was arrested by police.

PARTING SHOT

Golfer Rory McIlroy was due to tie the knot today at a lavish ceremony at Ashford Castle.

The guest list was pretty exclusive but local gardaí were there – with all their best golf puns at the ready – to keep an eye on proceedings.

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