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

IRELAND

The scene of a shooting incident that occurred on the South Circular Road last night. Sam Boal Sam Boal

• Support for Fine Gael has increased by 5%, a new opinion poll found.
• A man was charged over the discovery of a suspected meth lab in Dublin.
• A family in Waterford escaped unharmed after their house was petrol bombed.
• A man was arrested in a loyalist area of east Belfast after an explosion.
• A man in his 40s died in a fire in Mayo.
• Child abuser Bill Kenneally has appealed against the severity of his 14 year jail sentence.
• Three men were arrested after a robbery from a Dublin pharmacy.
• Much-loved Irish racing trainer Peter Casey died aged 82.

INTERNATIONAL

A wounded man is assisted at the site of a deadly suicide attack in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan. Massoud Hossaini Massoud Hossaini

#AFGHANISTAN: At least 96 people were killed in a bomb attack in Kabul.

#FRANCE: A zoo in Paris reopened after it found 50 baboons who all did a runner.

#USA: The entire USA Gymnastics board of directors will resign in the wake of a sex abuse scandal.

PARTING SHOT

Whatever happened to a nice, simple vanilla ice cream, aye? If it ain’t broke and all that.

Well, the good folks over at the DailyEdge have informed us that an ice-cream shop in Sligo has won ‘Best New Flavour In The World’ for its gin-flavour sorbet.

Not a Viennetta to be seen.

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