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

IRELAND

The Funeral Cortege of Irish man Micheál Ryan who was killed in a plane crash in Ethiopia last March leaving the Mortuary in Dublin Airport. Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• The hearing to determine the sentences for the two boys convicted of Ana Kriegel’s murder has been adjourned until next Tuesday morning.
• Quinn Industrial Holdings has issued a statement after it received fresh threats.
• Police investigating the deaths of 39 people found on a lorry in Essex are seeking to track two brothers from Armagh.
• The address of a woman claiming €60k over a car crash has been used five times in similar cases, a court heard.
• A garda accused of making a racist remark to a suspect has had the findings against him quashed.
• Free contraception has been recommended for young women only in a new report, due to its cost.
• Houmous sold in Aldi and Lidl has been recalled due to the presence of Salmonella.
• A garda has been reunited with a Dublin Marathon runner after helping to save his life at the weekend. 

INTERNATIONAL

MPs gather for questions in the House of Commons, London. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#POLLS: The UK is set to have a general election, which will be called for Thursday 12 December. 

#AMELIA BAMBRIDGE: Police in Cambodia are questioning six men over a missing British backpacker.

#AUSTRALIA: A shark has bitten off an Englishman’s foot on the Australian coast.

PARTING SHOT

Let’s spare a thought for Brenda after it was confirmed the UK is set to go to the polls for the third time in five years in a general election. 

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