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

IRELAND

Members of the Irish Road Victims Association outside Leinster House today calling for Shane Ross' drink driving bill to be enacted. Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Gardaí have appealed for witnesses after a three-year-old boy died in a stabbing incident.
• Two men died in a house fire in the Tully East area of Kildare.
• A senior Tusla manager told the Disclosures Tribunal that he accepted “the buck stops with him” on errors made in false McCabe claims.
• A man was shot at a halting site in the south Limerick city this afternoon.
• The Taoiseach described the Jobstown protest as like “a scene from Lord of the Flies”.
• Varadkar also said that Minister Regina Doherty ‘felt she was being harassed’ by a blogger and made a complaint to gardaí as a result.
• There was anger in Greystones after a McDonald’s was given the go-ahead to open near a school.
• The winning Euromillions ticket was sold in Castlebar.
• Health Minister Simon Harris said he was “sickened” at the “misleading nonsense” spread by rogue crisis pregnancy agencies.
• An Irishman is in critical condition after falling from a construction site in Australia.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has posted a criticism of “Ireland’s traditional stance” on Facebook after meeting Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney.

INTERNATIONAL

Children in Westland, Michigan participating in annual Mud Day celebrations in the town. Carlos Osorio / PA Images Carlos Osorio / PA Images / PA Images

#TRUMP JR: The son of the US President has posted emails detailing an offer from the Russians to provide “incriminating” information on Hillary Clinton.

#ISLAMIC STATE: A Syrian monitor has said that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, but the US said that his death cannot yet be confirmed.

#BLOOD: UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced an inquiry into a contaminated blood scandal that seen thousands of patients given products infected with diseases.

PARTING SHOT

Ed Sheeran is returning to Ireland next year, and people are being warned to avoid touts when trying to buy a ticket to his gigs.

With a variation on that theme, a Coldplay fan who went to last weekend’s Croke Park gig spent €200 to get his hands on a ticket, despite the face value being far lower.

There was some financial comeback for Ballymun man Jamie Harrington, however, who was given €50 by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin after telling him the story in a pub in central Dublin.

Sound. (via TheDailyEdge)

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