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

IRELAND

Eddie McGuinness (centre) who is taking over the role of Matchmaker from Willie Daly for for one weekend only at the Outing Festival, Lisdoonvarna. Eamon Ward Eamon Ward

• Shared kitchens and living rooms are part of a government plan to reduce to the cost of rent in cities.
• Drain cleaning fluid was apparently mixed with water instead of a dental product at a Co Clare dental clinic.
• Both the NUJ and BAI have expressed concern about Communicorp’s decision to ban Irish Times journalists from its stations.
• A sit-in protest by five former workers at a community and youth centre in Tallaght has reached its eighth day.
• A Co Clare court heard how a motorbiker roared away from gardaí at 240 km/h because ‘he thought he was under attack’.
• TCD’s Historical Society has rescinded the proposed award of a medal to former Ukip leader Nigel Farage.
• Multiple units of Cork Fire Brigade are tackling a large blaze this evening at a pub in Mallow.
• Gardaí are investigating the strange circumstances in which a cow was killed at a family farm in Co Meath.
• Direct Democracy Ireland founder Ben Giltor was accused of attacking the court system after he was found in contempt.
• Gardaí in Dublin investigating a mysterious ‘blood-like substance’ found outside Druncondra café.

WORLD

The artwork of Julian Opie goes on show at the National Portrait Gallery in central London. John Stillwell / PA Images John Stillwell / PA Images / PA Images

#ICAN: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

#CATALAN CRISIS: A Spanish official has official has offered the first apology to Catalans injured by police during last week’s outlawed independence vote.

#BURNOUT: Japan’s public broadcaster has apologised to the parents of a young reporter who died of heart failure after logging 159 hours of overtime in a month.

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