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

IRELAND

Sophie Bonus and Saoirse Kelly from Wicklow at day one of the Forbidden Fruit Festival at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin Sam Boal Sam Boal

• After four months of industrial action, the Luas strikes are over after the drivers voted to accept Labour Court recommendations on pay.
• The priest at Gareth Hutch’s funeral has asked the feuding Kinahan and Hutch families “to seek peace and not disaster”.
• Donald Trump is coming to Ireland at the end of this month…
• … and a lot of people are getting ready to kick up a fuss over that fact.
• The National Lottery has finally paid out on an €8.2 million jackpot that has been shrouded in mystery since the draw was made in March.
• The former director of Irish Life and Permanent Peter Fitzpatrick has been acquitted of being part of a scheme that saw €7.2 billion temporarily transferred to Anglo Irish Bank.
• Two Irish men have been arrested for drug trafficking in Spain as part of an anti-drugs operation called Operation Leprechaun.
• A missing, pregnant teenager has been found safe and well.
• A man has been jailed for raping his stepsons hundreds of times.
• Dublin’s ugliest building is going to be knocked down and turned into something quite easy on the eye.
• Ireland has tumbled down the list of officially ‘good’ countries.
• A man has been arrested for fraud after trying to withdraw €300,000 from a bank account here.
• Say it ain’t so: There’s heavy rain on the way at the weekend.
• Dublin City Council says that full-time Airbnb rentals need planning permission.

WORLD

Missing Japanese seven-year-old Yamato Tanook, who turned up safe and well earlier today AP AP

#JAPAN: A seven-year-old boy who was abandoned in a bear-inhabited forest as punishment has been found alive.

#EUROPE: Floods on the continent have killed ten people and forced thousands from their homes.

#BRITAIN: A student who called out David Cameron for ‘waffling’ has said she doesn’t care if she was rude.

#BOSS MESSI: Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi has been compared to a ‘crime boss’ at his trial for tax evasion.

INNOVATION

• Google is now teaching its self-driving cars to beep by themselves.
• You’ll soon have 72 new emojis to play around with.

PARTING SHOT

Poor Jeremy Corbyn. This week the UK Labour Party leader had a Vice News documentary screened about him, which was pretty good by all accounts. But now that documentary has been given a slight makeover in the style of the UK Office, made infamous by Ricky Gervais’ David Brent.

And it really is a dead ringer to be honest:

On Snapchat: Riverfest is on in Dublin this weekend so we went along to have a look – check out our sailing story.

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