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

IRELAND

Leo Varadkar and Eoghan Murphy having a quiet word at the launch of Land Development Agency. Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Commissioner Drew Harris has said the form of garda attire at the North Frederick Street protest ‘was not correct’.
• Plans to build more than 500 homes near a Dublin park have been rejected.
• Dublin councillors weren’t happy at all with the standard of presentations today as presidential hopefuls set out their stalls.
• The Ombudsman has found alleged sex abuse victim Máiría Cahill was failed by the PSNI inquiry.
• The Taoiseach said he was “embarrassed for his own profession” reading CervicalCheck testimonies.
• The government has set up the new Land Development Agency with the aim of building thousands of houses.
• Former members have been left frustrated as the main ESB union refuses to confirm that they’ve left.
• Gardaí hit 11 Wexford houses in an early morning raid targeting organised burglary gangs. 
• Mental health patients are to be re-examined due to emergency legislation to address an “unconstitutional” law.

INTERNATIONAL

German police were in a face off with protestors in a forest earmarked to be torn down earlier today. Marcel Kusch DPA / PA Images Marcel Kusch DPA / PA Images / PA Images

#COVER UP: US clergy told Pope Francis that the American church is “lacerated with the evil of sexual abuse”.

#CONTROVERSIAL: Tel Aviv was chosen ahead of Jerusalem to host Eurovision 2019.

#MISSOURI: A 10-year-old boy had a miraculous recovery after his skull was pierced with a meat skewer.

PARTING SHOT

“But I had a clear road, garda.” 

This excuse didn’t fly with the Wexford Roads Policing Unit, after clocking a driver at 135km in a 100 zone.