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

Upwards of 500 hundred farmers with over 300 hundred tractors protest outside Minister Martin Heydon's constituency office and along the main street in Newbridge Co Kildare on Saturday, as they seek the removal of Bord Bia Chairman Larry Murrin over his use of imported Brazilian meats. Picture: Finbarr O'Rourke Picture: Finbarr O'Rourke

IRELAND

• Two young men died following a single-car collision in Ballina, Co Mayo, in the early hours of this morning.
• More than 30 households in a Co Wexford estate are facing eviction after being served notices by their shared landlord.
• A man his 60s died after he was struck by a lorry on the M4 this morning, with part of the road closing as a result.
• Sixty-three people were deported from Ireland to South Africa on a charter flight this weekend, the Department of Justice has confirmed.
• Irish citizens in the Gulf and wider Middle East have been advised to shelter in place and avoid unnecessary travel following a sharp escalation in conflict across the region.

INTERNATIONAL

Security forces fire tear gas to disperse a protest against U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, at a bridge leading to the fortified Green Zone where the U.S. Embassy is located in Baghdad, Iraq. AP Photo / Hadi Mizban AP Photo / Hadi Mizban / Hadi Mizban

#IRAN: Iran launched missile attacks on US military bases in the Gulf region of the Middle East and Israel following strikes on the Islamic republic which killed the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

#UAE: As Iran fired missiles at Dubai in retaliation for the US and Israeli attack on the Islamic republic, Limerick man John Hayes was watching the warheads zip over his head.

PARTING SHOT 

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