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News Fix

Here’s What Happened Today: Monday

Everyone’s talking about the judge in Graham Dwyer’s trial, a HSE report and the US’s first 2016 candidate.

Updated 11.58 pm

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

IRELAND

christy Mayor of Dublin Christy Burke at Youth Work Ireland's 'Integration, is it working for young people' conference. Marc O'Sullivan Marc O'Sullivan

INTERNATIONAL

Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group visit UK A painting onboard the US aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, currently at anchor off the UK's south coast. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#CRUZ CONTROL: Republican Senator Ted Cruz became the first person from either of the US’s major parties to announce a bid for the White House.

#CLAUDIA LAWRENCE: A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Yorkshire woman in 2009.

#RUN THIS TOWN: Barbados has announced its intention to remove The Queen as its head of state.

#LUCHA LIBRE: A Mexican wrestler died while performing in the ring.

#AMANDA KNOX: An Italian court is to review Amanda Knox’s conviction for killing Meridith Kercher.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

Pretty Woman was released 25 years ago today. Vanity Fair talks to one of its screenwriters about how a ‘gritty screenplay got turned into a fairy tale’.