NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Thousands of people across the country took part in strikes to demand more action from the government on the climate crisis.
- Gardaí are investigating after a teenager was assaulted in the RDS during the Higher Options exhibition.
- The funeral of the Mayo farm shooting victim Brendan Kilduff will take place tomorrow.
- Meat Industry Ireland has said the beef protest blockades ‘have caused long-term damage’ to the industry as 100 workers were laid off in Cahir.
- The High Court has has approved a Personal Insolvency Arrangement allowing a couple to write off more than €6 million of their debts.
- A ‘serious player’ in the Longford drug dealing scene was arrested by gardaí during raid in which a gun and drugs were seized.
- Quinn Industrial Holdings staff have called for “an end to this reign of terror” after the attack on its COO Kevin Lunney.
- Speed camera van operators are to strike next week in dispute over working conditions.
WORLD
#BREXIT: Brexit talks are progressing progressing with “momentum”, the British minister in charge of the divorce said today after meeting his EU counterpart.
#OUT OF THE RACE: New York City Mayor Mayor Bill de Blasio has ended his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
#CANADA: Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologised for past “unacceptable” behaviour but said can’t say how many times he wore blackface.
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