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

IRELAND

• The All-Island Rail Review published today revealed plans to build new railways and train stations, electrify many existing sections of track and introduce new 200km/h intercity trains.
• An assessment has commenced about extending Ireland’s national colorectal cancer screening programme to those aged 50 to 54.
• Former international swimming coach and serial child abuser Derry O’Rourke was given a ten year sentence at the Central Criminal Court for one count of rape and 11 counts of sexual assault of a young teenage girl between 1989 and 1990.
• Intel announced plans to cut thousands of jobs globally but did not provide clarity on whether or how the move could impact its 4,900 workers in Ireland.
• Almost one-third of voters believe in a number of various conspiracy theories, a new survey found.
• Children’s charity Barnados called for schools to introduce affordable uniform options.
• The Supreme Court dismissed Graham Dwyer’s appeal against his conviction for the murder of childcare worker Elaine O’Hara in 2012.
• The Mater hospital rescheduled a “small number” of surgeries due to problems with its IT system.
• Dublin Zoo has welcomed a five-year-old male Asian lion named Kushanu who will join female Kamala at the Asian lion habitat.

THE WORLD

Flooded homes in Jingtang village of China's Hunan province after Typhoon Gaemi Alamy Alamy

#GAZA Mediators said they are concerned about prospects for future peace talks after an Israeli air strike killed Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran.

#UK 22 police officers in the UK were injured last night in “violent disorder” in Southport amid violent clashes between anti-migrant agitators and police outside a mosque.

#COURT Former BBC presenter Huw Edwards admitted accessing indecent photographs of children as young as seven after a man he met online sent him hundreds of sexual images on WhatsApp.

PARTING SHOT

More Olympic medal prospects for Ireland as Kellie Harrington makes it through the lightweight division’s quarter-final, which means she is guaranteed at least a bronze medal.