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

IRELAND

Gino Kenny, Richard Boyd Barrett and Brid Smith of Solidarity - People Before Profit arriving at Leinster House. PA PA

• Mary Lou got the most votes but no Taoiseach was elected on the first day of the Dáil. See how the day unfolded here.
• 48 new TDs entered Leinster House. Here’s how it all went down.
• John Delaney was joined as party to proceedings brought by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement after a search of the FAI.
• Julian Smith hit back at accusations that he sealed the recent power-sharing deal by keeping important details from Boris Johnson.
• It emerged that four buildings in Tullamore town centre will be used for a new direct provision centre.
• Thousands of sandbags were delivered to homes in Clare under threat of rising floodwater.
• A suspect device was left outside the home of the uncle of Sinn Féin MP John Finucane.
• Ireland outlawed the sale, manufacture, import and export of products containing microplastics.
• Met Éireann forecast that the weather will remain unsettled over the coming days with a risk of snow and flooding in some areas.

WORLD

A vigil for victims of last night's shooting in the central German town Hanau, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Markus Schreiber Markus Schreiber

#USA: A longtime ally of Donald Trump Roger Stone was jailed for 40 months for impeding a congressional investigation, in a case that ignited a firestorm over the US president’s political interference in the justice system.

#GERMANY: Officials in Germany are investigating the attacker’s far-right terror connections after nine people were killed in shootings in a Frankfurt suburb.

#AUSTRALIA: Two people were killed after a passenger train travelling between Sydney and Melbourne derailed.

#UK: Police in London have launched an attempted murder investigation after a man was stabbed on the grounds of a mosque. 

PARTING SHOT

The first sitting of the 33rd Dáil failed to produce a Taoiseach but Eamon Ryan nearly accidentally secured the job as TDs were very slow to call for a vote on his nomination, meaning it nearly went through unopposed.

Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin even shook the Green Party leader’s hand. It would have been an unexpected end to the current coalition conundrum that currently hangs over Leinster House.