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

IRELAND

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald having a laugh with an elderly woman after voting in the General Election at the Deaf Village in Cabra. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• After three weeks of campaigning and debates, the public are having their say on who will make up the next Dáil – and there’s just one hour left of voting.
• The DPP decided that the case of a man accused of ramming the gates of Áras an Uachtaráin, the Custom House and Government Buildings in Dublin must be sent to the Circuit Court.
• Technicians working on the Coast Guard helicopter fleet have voted overwhelmingly in a survey that they would consider industrial action, The Journal has learned. 
• The High Court has granted an application by Tusla to have a 17-year-old girl, who is currently in foster care, adopted without the consent of her birth parents.
• A Wicklow businessman has admitted creating child sexual abuse images by superimposing the face of his ex-partner’s teenage daughter onto photographs of partially naked bodies.

INTERNATIONAL

Women line up in front of a bakery to get their share of bread in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip Alamy Alamy

#PALESTINE Two children and a woman were crushed to death as a crowd of Palestinians pushed to get bread at a bakery in the Gaza Strip amid a worsening food crisis in the war-ravaged territory, medical officials said.

#GEORGIA Police in Georgia arrested 43 protesters during a violent crackdown on an overnight protest against the government’s decision to delay pursuing membership of the EU. 

#CRYPTO A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, for 6.2 million dollars (€5.9m) last week has eaten the fruit in Hong Kong.

PARTING SHOT

Oscar the dog looks as members of the public vote at The Harold School, Glasthule, Co Dublin RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie