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

IRELAND

Roisin Page, Dublin and Monique Princau, Malta at Metallica's sold out concert, with 75,000 fans at Slane Castle Arthur Carron Arthur Carron

• The head of a Scottish fishing group has Ireland would be “unwise” to pick a fight with the country over Rockall.
• A protest from parents had led to a Dublin school cancelling its plans for a Catholic agency to offer sex education.
• Brown Thomas cancelled the release of Kanye West runners due to “health and safety concerns”.
• Minister for Transport Shane Ross was lobbied by publicans and politicians to pivot on the zero tolerance drink driving laws.
• A mental health facility in the UK where Irish teens are sent was deemed “unsafe”. 
• A man in his 20s was arrested after attempting to set fire to a garda station in Cork.
• A suspect device in a Dublin housing estate was deemed non-viable by a bomb disposal team.
• It’s going to rain, rain and rain again according to the coming week’s weather forecast.

INTERNATIONAL

Competitors cross the River Nidd as they take part in the Great Knaresborough Bed Race in Yorkshire Danny Lawson / PA Images Danny Lawson / PA Images / PA Images

#BAD IDEA: A man left a bag full of drugs on a Manchester tram along with his name and address.

#CAMDEN: Five teenagers were arrested over a homophobic assault and robbery on a London bus.

#BORDER: US President Donald Trump suspended tariffs against Mexico after an 11-hour migration deal. 

PARTING SHOT

This piece on The Guardian yesterday documents a woman’s experience of literally getting a sex headache. 

“My partner was gleeful at the diagnosis. ‘Hold on, I almost blew your mind?’”

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