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

IRELAND 

Fiadh (5), Suainibhe (3), Adammair (6) Mc Donna from Malahide enjoying the sunshine on Portmarnock beach in Dublin this afternoon. Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• The European Commission has announced that it has opened a formal investigation into how Insurance Ireland pools its data on Irish consumers.
• The Ana Kriegel trial has heard expert testimony suggesting that she was struck a number of times as she lay on the ground of a derelict farmhouse where her body was later found.
• Irish WhatsApp users have been told to ensure their app is up to date, after it emerged that some phones have been infected with spyware through the messaging service.
• The company that will be offered the tender for the National Broadband Plan will invest an initial €220 million to help fund the project, it has been confirmed.
• European election candidate Ben Gilroy has been unsuccessful in his High Court action seeking an apology from RTÉ for not including him in a live election debate.
• The government has issued a forest fire danger rating of orange as high temperatures and low humidity levels are forecast for the rest of this week.
• An Bord Pleanála has approved plans for a new town submitted by South Dublin County Council that could home over 21,000 people.
• A garda has been seriously injured after he was dragged 100m along a road behind a suspected drink driver who refused to stop for him in Tipperary.

WORLD 

A Sri Lankan province north of the capital was under indefinite curfew today after a Muslim man was killed by a mob on Monday, the first death in anti-Muslim riots in the wake of the Easter terror attacks. Xinhua News Agency / PA Images Xinhua News Agency / PA Images / PA Images

#CLIMATE CHANGE: US scientists have detected the highest levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere since records began.

#MONSANTO: A jury in California has ordered Bayer-owned Monsanto to pay €1.78 billion damages to a couple that sued on grounds the weed killer Roundup caused their cancer, lawyers said.

#TIT FOR TAT: The ongoing trade war between the US and China stepped up a gear yesterday after China announced it would be imposing tariffs on $60 billion worth of US exports by next month. 

PARTING SHOT 

A German airport worker has damaged Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plane after accidentally crashing a van into it during an attempt to take a picture of the aircraft.

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