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

IRELAND 

Scenes along the strand in Greystones, Co. Wicklow today. Leon Farrell / Rolling News Leon Farrell / Rolling News / Rolling News

• Health officials confirmed that a further eight people have died with Covid-19 in Ireland, along with 499 new cases. 
• Sinn Féin is tabling a motion of no confidence in Leo Varadkar following controversy over the Tánaiste giving a copy of an agreement between the government and the Irish Medical Organisation to a rival GP group last year.
• Gardaí have arrested a man on suspicion of murder in relation to the discovery of the body of a man in a house in Phibsborough, Dublin 7. 
• A teenager has been arrested in relation to the death of Deliveroo cyclist Thiago Cortes.
• A man has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a homeless man in a Tallaght park.
• Gardaí have launched an appeal for a woman who went missing after she arrived in Dublin on a flight from London last Thursday.
• Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said Israel’s demolition of 80 Palestinian homes on Tuesday was a “brutal and violent act”. 
• A high court judge has ordered the arrest of any person found in occupation of a Roscommon farm, which was the scene of a controversial eviction in 2018.

WORLD

Surfers and paddleboarders enjoy the waves at Tynemouth, near North Shields, England. PA PA

#US ELECTION: Here are the main points in the election right now as the US edges towards electing Joe Biden.

#LIBEL:  Johnny Depp said he has been asked to resign from the Fantastic Beasts film as he criticised the “surreal judgement” against him in his High Court libel case.

#BANNED: Twitter has suspended an account belonging to former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon after he suggested that Dr Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded.