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

IRISH

Munster Rugby fans place tributes outside Thomond Park in Limerick today. Niall Carson / PA Images Niall Carson / PA Images / PA Images

• Michael D Higgins, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny and the rugby community paid their tributes to Anthony Foley, who died suddenly today.
• An eleven-year-old boy is in a critical condition after being hit by a truck while crossing the road this morning.
• Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar said today that if gardaí were to strike, that they would “change their relationship with the public forever”.
• Gardaí seized €100,000 worth of cocaine in Saggart as part of ongoing investigations targeting serious criminal activity in the Dublin region.
• A shooting in the Cherry Orchard area of Dublin was condemned this morning. “It is time for it to stop,” said local Sinn Féin councillor Daithí Doolan.
• ‘Dublin is what happens in between’: a new tourism campaign for the city and county will be launched tomorrow.

WORLD

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#TRINITY GAY: The 15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay has been fatally shot in Lexington, South California.

#MAINE-ET-LOIRE: Four people were killed and 14 injured after a balcony collapsed in western France as young people were attending a housewarming party.

#AH BORIS: A column that the pro-Brexit Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson wrote has been published – in which he argues the case for remaining in the EU.

INNOVATION

• Rwanda, dubbed ‘the land of a thousand hills’, has begun using drones to help deliver medical care to rural parts of the country.
• “This just got real” – Mark Zuckerberg’s response when Robert Downey Jr (aka Ironman) offered to voice his personal assistant. [Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

Munster fans paid a poignant tribute to Anthony Foley outside Stade-Yves-du-Manoir today, in an emotional rendition of ‘The Fields of Athenry’, and ‘There is an Isle,’ a favourite of Foley’s Shannon RFC.