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

Danny O’Carroll, who plays Buster Brady in Mrs Brown’s Boys, will take to the stage for the first time as a pantomime Dame in Jack and the Beanstalk at the SETU Arena in Waterford. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• A third outbreak of bird flu on a commercial turkey farm in less than a week was this evening been confirmed in Co Monaghan.
• A man in his 60s is in a “critical” condition in hospital after being discovered with serious injuries in Co Longford over the weekend.
• Bank of Ireland said it is formally investigating comments made by some members of staff in a work chat regarding RTÉ’s two-part documentary series on the tracker mortgage scandal.
• Gardaí are investigating after a 13-year-old boy was attacked in Tuam while returning home from school last month.
• Ivan Yates insisted he’s “done nothing wrong” in his first interview since the media training controversy that erupted over his role in the presidential election.
• The parents of Harvey Sherratt (9) who suffered while waiting for scoliosis surgery want a “full, independent inquiry” into Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) following a whistleblower’s claims that CHI mistakenly removed their son from its active spinal surgery waiting.
• A rain warning for eight counties will be in place tomorrow.
• An Irish man spoke to The Journal about his failed testes surgery as the hospital apologised decades later.
• Applications for the next launch of 99 affordable purchase homes in Dublin 7 will open later this month. One-bedroom apartments will range between €248k and €332k, while two-bedroom apartments will cost between €320k and €414k.
• Police cybercrime units in Northern Ireland did not have the capacity to effectively manage the risk posed by a prolific online predator who drove one of his victims to take her own life, a Police Ombudsman investigation found.
• In Pictures: President Michael D Higgins’s 14 years in office

INTERNATIONAL

A woman and child crosses a flooded street due to Typhoon Fung-wong and high tide on Monday. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#PHILIPPINES: A weakening typhoon Fung-wong departed the Philippines over the South China Sea this morning, after its driving winds and heavy rain killed at least two people and forced more than a million to evacuate.
#BBC: US President Donald Trump sent a letter to the BBC threatening billion-dollar legal action, following uproar over the editing of a speech he made in a Panorama documentary.
#FRANCE: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was freed from prison after a judge ordered his release from jail pending an appeal hearing over Libyan funding.
#PARDON: Trump pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
#US SHUTDOWN: US Senators reached a bipartisan deal that would resume federal funding and end a shutdown which has stretched to a record 40 days and forced many government operations to grind to a halt.
#LONDON: Former BBC Radio One DJ Tim Westwood was granted conditional bail after appearing in court charged with rape and sexual assault.

PARTING SHOT

Kieran Cuddihy presented his first show on RTÉ Radio 1 since taking over from longtime host Joe Duffy. RTÉ RTÉ

Kieran Cuddihy took to the airwaves this afternoon to host his first Liveline programme on RTÉ Radio 1 today. 

He read the number that listeners could phone to get in touch on, adding: “It’s still the number. I mean, they haven’t changed everything.”

However, besides the host, there was one other change to the programme that was apparent before Cuddihy had even welcomed listeners to the show: Liveline has a new jingle. 

Liveline’s classic signature tune comes from Over The Moors, an instrumental piece of music by the Irish folk band Stockton’s Wing from their 1986 album Full Flight. 

But as a new host took over today, a new opening tune played.

Musician Mike Hanrahan, who is a member of Stockton’s Wing, told The Journal that while he’s sorry that the jingle has been changed, he doesn’t feel aggrieved “at all”.