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

IRELAND

Sport Ireland's John Treacy and Kieran Mulvey arriving at Leinster House today for their Oireachtas Committee hearing. Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• The former boss of CervicalCheck has said Simon Harris was warned that offering extra smear tests could cause delays.
• Local Property Tax changes are to be deferred for one year. Here’s an explainer on what that means. 
• Defence Forces personnel due to return to Ireland after six months abroad face a delay which has been described as “unacceptable”. 
• A garda faces dismissal over his alleged involvement in a video of a sexual nature that was posted online. 
• A man in his 20s was arrested over a shooting incident outside a school in west Dublin.
• A masked gang attacked a cancer patient with a hammer in front of his family during a burglary.
• Sport Ireland faced questions from an Oireachtas Committee over the FAI and the €100k loan from John Delaney.
• The Mr Moonlight trial heard that murder accused Pat Quirke went around Mary Lowry’s farm “as if he owned the place“. 
• Plans for Dublin’s 5km Liffey cycle route have been unveiled.
• Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe said he wouldn’t mind if his mortgage was held by a vulture fund.

INTERNATIONAL

A packed House of Commons earlier today House of Commons / PA Images House of Commons / PA Images / PA Images

#BREXIT: Ministers resigned as Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn sat down to discuss the way forward with Brexit. 

#INVESTIGATION: A video emerged of British soldiers shown shooting at a Jeremy Corbyn target. 

#NO VERDICT: A jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of David Duckenfield, the former police commander at Hillsborough facing manslaughter charges.

PARTING SHOT

The Financial Times has reached 1 million paid subscribers to its content.

To congratulate the publication, Google sent a cake.

It didn’t go down well with this worker at the FT, anyway. 

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