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

IRELAND

Luke Talbot, Renato Dopp, Alyne da Costa, Lachlan Kellly and Eli Jordan, who were winners at the Griffith College Film and TV Showcase - which will run at Griffith College until Monday Sasko Lazarov Sasko Lazarov

• Two 15-year-olds have died after they got into difficulty while swimming in Co Clare this afternoon.
• Hundreds of mourners gathered this afternoon for the funeral of Anastasia ‘Ana’ Kriegel.
• One of the 209 women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy will not get to meet a liaison officer to discuss what support services she needs for another two weeks.
• A journalist for the Irish Daily Mail has told the Disclosures Tribunal that she was told by a colleague that Maurice McCabe was “a child abuser”.
• Planning permission has been granted for the building of the controversial incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.
• The assistant chief executive of Dublin City Council Brendan Kenny has said that over 250 people removed from monthly homelessness figures in Dublin are still homeless.
• Police seized abortion pills and two robots that were used to give the medicine to campaigners at a demonstration in Belfast.
• Met Éireann has issued a nationwide yellow alert for rainfall for tomorrow, covering the hours from midday to 10pm.

INTERNATIONAL

People shelter under umbrellas on Bournemouth beach in Dorset, England as rainy weather hits the country Andrew Matthews Andrew Matthews

#DENMARK: Denmark has become the latest European country to ban the Islamic full-face veil in public spaces. 

#FAKE DEATH: The Russian journalist who worked with Ukrainian authorities to fake his own death has said that the staged murder included getting smeared in pig’s blood and taken to the morgue.

#TARIFFS: The US has said it will impose harsh tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the EU, Canada and Mexico at midnight (4am Irish time).

PARTING SHOT

Today, a tweet went viral about how the song that topped the chart on the day of your 14th birthday defines your life.

DailyEdge.ie has compiled a list of some tweets from people giving their opinions on the song that was number one when they turned 14.

So, what topped the charts on your birthday?

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