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

Council workers remove wet sandbags from Island Road which was badly flooded. A major flood clean-up is underway in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, after the River Slaney burst its banks during Storm Chandra yesterday. Eamonn Farrell / © RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / © RollingNews.ie / © RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Met Éireann issued a rainfall warning for counties Dublin, Wicklow, Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, and Wexford, effective from midnight and to remain in place for 24 hours.
• Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien held a meeting with the Taoiseach and the Justice Minister today on introducing regulations that would restrict the use of scrambler motorbikes.
• A man was charged with the murder of 81-year-old retired bus driver Timothy ‘Teddy’ Murnane in Tipperary town in September of last year.
• A man was jailed for eight years after posting intimate images of his ex-girlfriend on social media and with her family following years of brutal assaults and controlling behaviour.
• VHI Insurance announced another price increase in premiums, the third in twelve months.
• An infant boy sustained serious injuries in an incident involving two dogs at a home in Co Kilkenny this afternoon.

INTERNATIONAL

A protester yells at a vehicle at Bishop Whipple Federal building in Minneapolis. AP Photo / Laura Bargfeld AP Photo / Laura Bargfeld / Laura Bargfeld

#IRAN: US President Donald Trump warned Iran that “time is running out” for the country to negotiate a deal over its nuclear programme, as Washington steps up military pressure following weeks of unrest inside the Islamic republic.

#UNITED STATES: Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar confronted her attacker and then continued her speech after being sprayed her with an unknown substance during a town hall meeting.

PARTING SHOT

2nd Class pupils from St Etchen’s National School, Kinnegad, Westmeath represented by Penny Clarke, Louis Kenna and teacher Jennine Kenna, were today named Junior National Winners of this year’s National Disability Authority Someone Like Me Art Competition. Finbarr O'Rourke Finbarr O'Rourke

SECOND CLASS PUPILS from St Etchen’s National School in Kinnegad were named Junior National Winners of this year’s National Disability Authority Someone Like Me art competition, while Muslim National School, Dublin, were named Senior National Winners.

The announcement was made at an awards ceremony held at Dublin City Hall.

Teachers and pupils from 52 primary schools across Ireland gathered to celebrate achieving County Winner status and see the overall winners be announced.

uslim National School, Dublin, were today named Senior National Winners of this year’s National Disability Authority Someone Like Me Art Competition. Finbarr O'Rourke Finbarr O'Rourke

Celebrating its tenth year, the competition, which is organised and funded by the National Disability Authority, allows Ireland’s young people to learn about inclusivity and diversity and express this through the medium of art.