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

IRELAND

Traffic on Dublin's city centre quays after new traffic restrictions came into effect today. Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced government plans to double Ireland’s global footprint by 2025.
• Thousands of students received their CAO offers for third-level courses today.
• With the CAO offers out, students are being warned to be wary of “absolute cowboys” in the rental market.
• Gardaí appealed for witnesses after a serious road crash in Cork.
• An Irish survivor of the Barcelona attack spoke out about their family’s experience on Las Ramblas.
• New bus prioritisation measures came into force on Dublin’s quays from today.
• The government offered support to the family of an Irish woman who died in an apparent suicide pact in Egypt.
• A man was arrested after three people were stabbed in a Limerick pub.
• Three people who were discriminated against by their landlord over social welfare payments have been awarded substantial compensation.
• The head of the Child and Family Agency Tusla was paid €41,000 for work by the agency after stepping down from his post in February of last year.
• Residents of the Sacred Heart Residence nursing home in Dublin are being taken out on afternoon trips on rickshaws.

INTERNATIONAL

Onlookers gather outside the UK Houses of Parliament, as Big Ben's bongs ring out for the last time before renovation work begins. Dominic Lipinski / PA Images Dominic Lipinski / PA Images / PA Images

#BARCELONA: Police in the Catalan region of Spain attended an incident in Subirats, where the main suspect in the Las Ramblas terror attack was shot dead.

#MARSEILLE: One person has died and another is seriously injured in the southern French city of Marseille after a van ploughed into people at two bus stops.

#YOU SAW THE WHOLE OF THE MOON: A solar eclipse plunged parts of the US into darkness this evening.

PARTING SHOT

A month ago, an independent graphic novel publisher called SelfMadeHero sent out an open call for pitches that featured UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The company received a plethora of submissions, with illustrators pitching everything from Corbyn the Barbarian to Corbynman the superhero.

As the Guardian reports, one story features the veteran left-wing politician battling an “inter-dimensional invasion fleet of Daily Mail death drones”, with others showing him making and wielding jars of jam.