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

IRELAND

Singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey at the Brendan Behan statue in Dublin for the launch of the inaugural I.NY cultural festival. Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Dublin City Council has announced that toll charges on the East Link Bridge will be reduced from next week.
• Climate change is having a dramatic impact on the timing of floods across European countries, including Ireland.
• A UN committee has criticised the Irish government for its failure to independently investigate allegations of ill-treatment at Magdalene Laundries.
• Nine gardaí have faced official disciplinary action over the misuse of the Pulse computer system and other information systems this year.
• A Co Galway secondary school has succeeded in quashing a decision by the Department for Education compelling it to accept a pupil.
• Former Console bosses have been asked by the State to repay grants worth €150,000.

WORLD

An egg scare across Europe has spread. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#TAINTED OEUF: As millions of eggs have been pulled from supermarket shelves across Europe, three countries are in dispute about how long they have known about potential contamination.

#SABRE-RATTLING: US President Donald Trump has said that military plans to deal with North Korea are “locked and loaded”.

#YISRAEL KRISTAL: The Holocaust survivor who became the world’s oldest man has died aged at the age of 113.

PARTING SHOT

Earlier this week, rapper Jay Z released a video called Moonlight. It’s comprised completely of black actors acting out a well-known scene from Friends.

The director of the video Alan Yang, who among other things is behind Netflix comedy Master of None, discusses how he became involved in the project and the wider representation of black people on screen.

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