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

IRELAND

Members of the Garda Technical Bureau at the scene where a man was shot in the head in the front garden of a house at Shancastle Park Clondalkin. Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

• It emerged that a teenager shot in Clondalkin had had an altercation with a senior criminal two weeks before he was shot.
• Irish mothers are fighting to be heard on drugs which they say are linked to birth defects.
• Rescue teams in Galway appealed to the public to help them search for a man last seen getting into the water near the Quincentenary Bridge.
• A man was found dead in the public toilets in Dublin Airport.
• Homeless families who have finally found a place to live have described how they fear irreparable damage has been done to their children.
• One Direction’s Niall Horan is investing some of his fortune in a Dublin based app-development firm.
• Broadcaster Chris Donoghue is leaving Newstalk to take up a job in the Department of Foreign Affairs.
• It emerged that Sinn Féín TDs and senators will not be given a free vote on abortion.

WORLD

Zimbabweans gather outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in London, to demonstrate in support of the ousting of President Robert Mugabe. Ben Stevens / PA Ben Stevens / PA / PA

#ZIMBABWE: Thousands of protesters flooded Zimbabwe’s streets demanding Robert Mugabe’s resignation in a movement organised by independence war veterans and backed by ruling party barons and the army.

#USA: Trump said he’ll uphold a ban on importing trophies of elephants hunted and killed in Zimbabwe.

#UK: The British press, namely The Sun, was not overly enamoured with Leo Varadkar’s strong words on Brexit negotiations.

PARTING SHOT

Peter Kay is a well-known face on Irish telly and his appearances on the Late Late Show are becoming famous for the madness he causes – despite Ryan Tubridy’s best efforts.

There was lots going on already, but somehow Peter Kay managed to turn the whole show on its head with a few hymns. Yes, hymns.

You can watch the clip in all its glory here.