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

Minister for Children James Reilly with Senator John Crown and his 5-month-old son James at a photocall for the new ban on smoking in cars with children. Sasko Lazarov / Rollingnews.ie Sasko Lazarov / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

IRELAND

• A new law was announced which will ban smoking in a car with a child in it. 
• A man died after being hit by a car in Mayo.
• A 78-year-old woman was killed in a collision in Cork.
• Sex workers marched on Leinster House.
• The European Parliament passed a resolution calling for the immediate release of Ibrahim Halawa.
• The Garda Commissioner met with the organisation which represents sergeants and inspectors after a survey on morale in the force.
• Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy was found guilty of not paying income tax for nine years.
• Jerry Beades launched a legal challenge against the nomination of the High Court’s next president.
• An 1871 law catering for ‘lunatics‘ was finally repealed.
• Three retailers were told to stop selling potentially unsafe hoverboards.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, arrives for an EU summit in Brussels. Geert Vanden Wijngaert / PA Geert Vanden Wijngaert / PA / PA

WORLD

#BREXIT: EU leaders have been meeting as part of a two-day summit with a British exit and border control on the agenda.

#LONDON: A man was taken to hospital after stabbing himself in the head in Heathrow Airport.

#OH COME ON: Putin has essentially been trolling everyone by praising Donald Trump among other things.

#INDIA: An airline worker was killed when he was sucked into a jet engine.

#UNITED STATES: A man was charged with assault after choking a woman for reclining in her seat on a plane.

#GONE: Jose Mourinho was sacked by Chelsea.

INNOVATION

• A Brazilian judge shut down WhatsApp for 12 days, but his ruling was overturned after a public outcry. [Quartz]
• New rules about flying drones were announced for Ireland.

PARTING SHOT

In the first episode of a new web series, Macaulay Culkin shows what Kevin McCallister would be like today – and it ain’t pretty.