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

IRELAND

A newborn baby gorilla at Dublin Zoo Patrick Bolger Patrick Bolger

• The FAI has said that “all requested members” are to appear as scheduled in front of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport. 
• EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier and his team travelled to Dublin today to hold talks with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. 
• When gardaí asked murder accused Patrick Quirke why he had searched the internet for “body decomposition timeline” he told them his son had died and added: “That’s all I’m saying.”
• A Clare man who stabbed another man in the back during a row has been jailed for seven years.
• Six food businesses were ordered to partially or fully close after being found in breach of food safety legislation in March. 
• Three collision blackspots in Dublin are to have cameras installed to catch motorists running red lights.
• Independent Senator Alice-Mary Higgins has announced that she will run as a candidate in the European Parliament elections.
• Tributes have been paid to Trócaire worker Sally O’Neill after she died in a road accident in Guatemala.

INTERNATIONAL

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen talks outside her home earlier today Kevin Wolf Kevin Wolf

PARTING SHOT

Irish Rail has released CCTV footage of the moment a truck crashed into a bridge on Amiens Street in Dublin earlier today.

You can watch the moment the incident happened here: 

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