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

IRELAND

Pupils from Gaelscoil Chnoc Liamhna protesting outside Leinster House for new school buildings. Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Ibrahim Halawa arrived back in Ireland today, after spending four years in an Egyptian prison.
• Former Irish Times journalist Tom Humphries was jailed for 2.5 years for child sex offences.
• The length of Humphries sentence was criticised by campaigners.
• Finglas Garda Station was evacuated after a member of the public brought in a pipe bomb they’d found near their home.
• The body of a man in his 30s was discovered at a house in Waterford.
• Young pupils from Gaelscoil Chnoc Liamha protested outside Leinster House calling for a new school.
• A TV fitness instructor was found guilty of assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
• Wexford TD Mick Wallace has been disqualified by the High Court from involvement in companies for six years.
• The Supreme Court proceedings were broadcast for the first time in State history today.
• A four-year-old girl died after a tragic accident at a house in Offaly.
• Untreated raw sewage from the equivalent of 120,000 people is being pumped into Irish waters.
• A garda urged community groups to distribute Scientology-backed materials at an anti-drug meeting.
• Bertie Ahern gave a cryptic answer when asked if he’ll run for president.

INTERNATIONAL

Penguins swim around a diver as he cleans algae from inside the tank at Living Coasts Zoo & Aquarium in Torquay, Devon. Ben Birchall / PA Images Ben Birchall / PA Images / PA Images

#TERRY RICHARDSON: A celebrity photographer was blacklisted from Vogue and Vanity Fair amid harassment claims.

#BODY FOUND: The father of a missing three-year-old girl in Texas was arrested after changing his story.

#NUT ALLERGY: A Canadian man died after inhaling walnut particles from a sandblaster at a worksite.

PARTING SHOT

Brexit is creating a good deal of confusion for EU nationals currently living in the UK.

Many charities are claiming that unscrupulous employers are using this uncertainty to mistreat employees from mainland Europe.

Here, the Guardian speaks to some of those affected.

I told them I was leaving and asked if they could give me a reference – and the woman on the phone just said: ‘Remember, you’re Polish. You won’t be able to find other work.’ She had never said that before and it worried me.