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

IRELAND

Benjamin Jourdan from France cools off using a bag of ice in Dublin on what Met Éireann has said is the hottest day of the year. Sam Boal Sam Boal

• Minister Katherine Zappone revealed that 126 children were wrongly registered as biological children of adoptive parents.
• Abortion legislation is set to be law by January 2019, according to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
• Gardaí in Waterford arrested a man in connection with an assault that took place at the weekend in which Waterford FC boss Alan Reynolds was injured.
• Clare Daly’s heartfelt speech on Friday’s referendum was met with applause from both sides of the Dáil chamber this afternoon, as she described how the result felt like an enormous weight being lifted from the country.
• Gardaí arrested a man in his 20s in connection with the death of a man in Mayo last August.
• Terry Buckley, a director at Independent News and Media PLC is stepping down with effect from 31 May.
• Former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan told the Disclosures Tribunal today that she “didn’t trust” former garda press officer David Taylor or feel comfortable in his company.
•  Two men were arrested over the 1990 murder of Dessie Fox.

INTERNATIONAL

UK Public Health and Sport Minister Aileen Campbell pedals with Mary Duncan (90) and Jim Taylor (96) at the Kelpies in Falkirk, where she announced Scottish Government funding to roll out the Cycling Without Age Scotland project across Scotland Andrew Milligan Andrew Milligan

#CANCELLED: ABC has cancelled its hit reboot of US sitcom Roseanne following her racist tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.

#SPIDERMAN: Mamoudou Gassama, the 22-year-old Malian “Spiderman” who saved a child hanging from a balcony, has taken his first step toward French citizenship and joined the fire brigade.

#BELGIUM: A gunman shot dead two police officers and a bystander before taking a woman hostage and being shot by elite officers in the Belgian city of Liege earlier today.

PARTING SHOT

A US service dog unexpectedly gave birth to eight puppies in Tampa International Airport today, just before its owners had to board their flight, the BBC reported today.

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