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

IRELAND

High-wire circus artist Chris Bullzini walking a 120m tightrope across the River Lee for Sea Fest in Cork Darragh Kane Darragh Kane

• Scotland has warned of “action” against “illegal” fishing by Irish vessels as Creed says getting the Navy involved would only escalate matters.
• Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Fearghaíl has apologised to Angela Kerins over her treatment by members of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee.
• Consumers with solar panels could be able to sell excess electricity back to the grid in the future.
• Kilkenny County Council has voted to keep the public and media out of policy meetings.
• A garda who struck a protester with a baton during a housing demonstration was disciplined two years later.
• The Central Bank has proposed a new €320,000 ‘Double Rainbow’ sculpture for its Dublin headquarters.
• There is concern at the increasing levels of “aggression, threats and violence” towards barristers.
• On the week Trump came, a woman who egged the car of US President Richard Nixon when he visited Ireland in 1970 told TheJournal.ie all about it.
• The Cabinet will hear a proposal to send an Army Ranger Wing to Mali.
• Dublin postal drivers are seeking an injunction to prevent expulsion from their union.
• The winning ticket for last night’s lotto was sold in Galway.

INTERNATIONAL

Roman actors form a turtle formation during the Roman and Germanic Days in the Museum and Park Kalkriese. DPA / PA Images DPA / PA Images / PA Images

#LEADERSHIP BATTLE: Jeremy Hunt, a Conservative who hopes to succeed Theresa May, claimed that Angela Merkel told him the EU is willing to renegotiate the Brexit deal.

#BREXIT: Another Tory hopeful, Sajid Javid, said Britain should pay Ireland half a billion pounds to break the Brexit deadlock.

#DEMONSTRATION: More than a million people protested in Hong Kong against plans to allow extradition to China.

PARTING SHOT

This excellent long read on The New York Times looks at the “Making of a YouTube Radical”.

“I just kept falling deeper and deeper into this, and it appealed to me because it made me feel a sense of belonging. I was brainwashed.”

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