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

IRELAND

Sam Boal Sam Boal

• Enda Kenny used the first meeting of the Citizens’ Assembly to say that social media has meant that people with “diverse opinions” can be “hounded” or “destroyed”.
• A prison officer is being treated in hospital after being slashed with a homemade knife in Portlaoise prison yesterday evening.
• Gardaí investigating the killing of a man in his 50s who died after an attack in Limerick this week have made an arrest.
• A woman who was seriously injured in a crash in Donaghmede, north Dublin, on Thursday morning, has died from her injuries.
• A rainfall warning’s been issued and we can expect the odd thunderstorm too.
• “I believe that there are other species”: John Halligan was asked about aliens on the Late Late last night.

INTERNATIONAL

Evan Vucci Evan Vucci

#PLOT: Donald Trump has sarcastically dismissed women accusing him of sexual misconduct and denounced what he called an ‘international political and media plot against him’.

#MALIBU: An intruder was shot and a security guard stabbed during a break-in at the mansion of supermodel Miranda Kerr.

#NOT LOVIN’ IT: Cardinals are not happy about plans for a McDonald’s to open in the Vatican.

#GALAXY: US officials have banned all Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones from airplanes.

INNOVATION

• This is how you can quickly remove your embarrassing browser history.
• The Irish state will pump $25m into the firm behind a giant cable from Mayo to the US.

PARTING SHOT

Here’s a handy guide to what Irish grannies say … and what they really mean.