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

IRELAND

Large crowds protested in Dublin city this afternoon for the 9th national Right2Water demonstration. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• The 9th Right2Water protest against water charges took place in Dublin.
• A man died and a woman and children were injured in a two car collision in Meath.
• The Government chief whip said that Fine Gael’s attempt to implement water charges had been a “cock-up”.
• Gardaí appealed for video footage after a man was hospitalised after an assault in Monaghan.
• Two men were arrested over the shooting of a great-grandmother in south Dublin.
• Talks continued between unions and management aimed at ending a two-week Bus Éireann strike.
• Over 100 boats joined in the search for the two missing members of the Rescue 116 crew.

WORLD

Police arrest protesters during a rally against the U.S. missile strikes in Syria in New York. Hundreds of demonstrators took to New York City streets chanting Hands off Syria! and Money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation! AP Photo / Andres Kudacki AP Photo / Andres Kudacki / Andres Kudacki

#SYRIA: British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson cancelled a scheduled visit to Moscow, following the United States’ attack on Syria.

#BASQUE:  The Basque separatist group ETA provided France with a list of arms caches under its promise to completely disarm by today.

#SWEDEN: Police confirmed that a man arrested on “suspicion of terrorist crime” could be the driver of the truck that ploughed into a crowd of people in a busy Stockholm store department.

PARTING SHOT

The streets of Ballyfermot became a stage today, as a unique live performance on the explored the housing crisis through a reimagining of the Passion of the Christ.

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