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

IRELAND

Drogheda United fans ahead of the game, where their team stunned Derry City to secure FAI Cup. Nick Elliott / INPHO Nick Elliott / INPHO / INPHO

• Teaching unions criticise Fine Gael for ‘cheap and sycophantic reaction’ to Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary’s ‘outrageous’ comments on teachers.
• Gardaí have arrested a man in his 40s in connection with a fatal hit-and-run that left a 16-year-old boy dead in the early hours of the morning.
• A man has been hospitalised after an assault at a premises on Church Street in Tralee, Co Kerry, this afternoon.
• Sinn Féin has hit out at Fine Gael’s new migration policies, outlined earlier today, as “election soundbites”, and accused the party of having a “chaotic approach” to migration.
• Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has defended the advertisement run by Fianna Fáil general election candidate, Gráinne Seoige, in which she said that cancer services in Galway are the worst in the country, and if she is elected, she will work to ensure the sector receives investment.
• Stormont First Minister Michelle O’Neill has become the first senior Sinn Féin figure to take part in any Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Northern Ireland after laying a wreath during an event at Belfast City Hall. 

INTERNATIONAL

Demonstrators shout slogans during a pro-Palestine march in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza from Taksim Square to Germany Consulate General, in Istanbul. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#GAZA: Israeli strikes on two houses in northern Gaza this morning have killed 30 people, including 13 children, the region’s civil defence agency has said.

#US ELECTION: US president-elect Donald Trump was projected to win Arizona last night, completing the Republican’s sweep of all seven swing states after four days of counting.

PARTING SHOT

Labour leader Ivana Bacik with candidate for Dublin South West Ciaran Ahern canvassing in Kimmage. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

THE ELECTION CAMPAIGNS are now fully underway, as the first weekend of campaigning comes to a close. 

Candidates have been out canvassing door-to-door, and posters have been zip-tied to every available lamppost as incumbent TDs and hopeful newcomers vie for a seat in the Dáil.  

In our poll today, we’re asking: Have canvassers come to your door yet?