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

IRELAND

Cutter Martin Beaumont burns reed on the Norfolk Broads near Irstead, Norfolk, during the reed harvest PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

• The planned route for the renamed Metrolink in Dublin was unveiled. Nearby GAA club Na Fianna could lose its pitch for up to six years.
• Rory Harrison’s barrister says he’s ‘not a weasel’ but a ‘decent guy’ in closing arguments at Belfast Crown Court.
• The Dáil voted to abolish  the Strategic Communications Unit (SCU).
• Millionaire Declan Ganley has lost his challenge to an attempt by Denis O’Brien to name him in a defamation action against Red Flag Consulting.
• The Regency Hotel trial has been adjourned for three months over an inquiry into the death of the lead investigator.
• Shane Ross says he had nothing to do with a €150,000 grant for a private school in his constituency.
• Evelyn Cusack is to take over the role of Head of Forecasting at Met Éireann.
• Dublin Fire Brigade moved to assure the public that last night’s fire in Ballymun, Dublin, was “not a Grenfell Tower type of fire”.
• It’s going to be nice and sunny, and cold, this weekend.

WORLD

John Dowd Richard Drew / AP Richard Drew / AP / AP

#RUSSIA INVESTIGATION: Donald Trump’s lead lawyer in the Russia investigation John Dowd has stepped down.

#SALISBURY: The policeman injured in the recent nerve agent attack in the UK on a former Russian spy and his daughter has left hospital.

PARTING SHOT

Saharan dust is currently choking the Grecian island of Crete, ahead of a deep cyclone hitting the southern Mediterranean.

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