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

Nuns queue for food at the World Meeting of Families today in the RDS. Sam Boal Sam Boal

IRELAND

• Leaflets making links between abortion and breast cancer have been spotted on display in the main exhibition hall of the RDS.
• New research found that 10% of children don’t wear seatbelts when they’re travelling.
• A deal was reached between Ryanair and striking Irish pilots.
• Gardaí warned motorists of a raft of road closures for the papal visit.
• Over 8 million cigarettes were seized at Dublin Port.
• Leaflets making links between abortion and breast cancer have been spotted on display in the main exhibition hall of the RDS.
• Firefighters in Meath saved the life of a man after members of the public spotted smoke coming from a house.
• A woman attacked a priest with a knife in Kilkenny.

WORLD

A penguin is watched by a zoo keeper as it stands on a weighing scale for the Zoo’s annual weigh in, in London. Frank Augstein Frank Augstein

#USA: Trump said the US economy would tank if he is impeached.

#FRANCE: A man his mother and sister to death and seriously injured another person in a town near Paris before being shot dead by police.

#HONG KONG: An anaesthetist gassed his wife and daughter to death using a yoga ball filled with carbon monoxide.

PARTING SHOT

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