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

IRELAND

Sam Boal Sam Boal

• A woman was hospitalised in Wexford after being assaulted by a man impersonating a garda at a roadside robbery.
• Luas workers will go on strike tomorrow: here’s what you need to know to get around.
• An election candidate in Cork has been told she is a “suicide waiting to happen” in a series of messages on Facebook.
• A new agreement between the health service and medical unions will see the responsibility for key hospital tasks transferred from junior doctors to nurses.
• It has been revealed that Labour voted against extending Special Criminal Court’s powers in 2009.
• A man in his 40s was arrested after €930,000 worth of cocaine was seized in a Dublin house raid.
• An 83-year-old American man has been acquitted of raping a teenager in a Limerick hotel.
• A 16-year-old boy has been imprisoned after a judge said she felt she had no option because of the lack of adult supervision in his life.

INTERNATIONAL

Johnson arriving at Bradford Crown Court this morning. Peter Byrne Peter Byrne

#AUSTRALIA: A man has been charged with allegedly raping, kidnapping and attempting to murder two young foreign backpackers.

#ENGLAND: Sunderland’s Adam Johnson pleaded guilty to one count of sexual activity with a child and one count of grooming at his under-age sex trial today.

#US: Bernie Sanders’ brother is convinced ‘Bernard’ can go all the way saying, “You’d get tired just watching him”.

INNOVATION

• Google will stop accepting display ads that use Adobe Flash from June this year and will ban them entirely come 2 January 2017.
• Here’s exactly how your Snapchat score calculated. 

PARTING SHOT

A World War II veteran has reunited with his wartime girlfriend – 71 years after they last saw each other.

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