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

IRELAND

Nurses and midwives at the picket line outside St James's Hospital in Dublin. Brian Lawless / PA Wire/PA Images Brian Lawless / PA Wire/PA Images / PA Wire/PA Images

• Around 37,000 nurses and midwives engaged in their third day of strike action in a dispute over pay and staffing levels.
• A nurse told a murder trial how Warren O’Connor had a knife “embedded” in his chest with the handle “snapped off”.
• The government was accused of delivering the budget of the National Children’s Hospital ”under false pretences” and knowing there could be a significant overrun. 
• A woman from Mayo died following a car crash near Melbourne in Australia.
• A 33-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder by detectives investigating the killing of Ian Ogle.
• An online forum featuring images of Irish women shared without their consent was shut down.
• The Department of Health informed the Rotunda Hospital it must offer abortions up to 12 weeks, not 11 weeks as it had been doing. 
• A Dáil vote to end the referrals of jobseekers to the JobPath scheme passed by 81 votes to 42. 
• Storm Erik is set to hit Ireland tomorrow with “damaging gusts” of up to 130 km/h.

WORLD

A horticulturist makes some final adjustments during a preview for the Kew Orchid Festival in London. Jonathan Brady / PA Wire/PA Images Jonathan Brady / PA Wire/PA Images / PA Wire/PA Images

#BREXIT: Prime Minister Theresa May was told the European Union will not reopen negotiations on the Brexit withdrawal agreement.

#ENGLAND: The body recovered from the wreckage of the plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala arrived in England for identification. 

#EUROPE: France recalled its envoy to Rome after an Italian minister met ‘yellow vest’ protesters. 

#BRITAIN: All horse racing in Britain was called off because of three confirmed cases of equine flu.

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