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

IRELAND

Dublin Inspector Martin Mooney and Sergeant Lisa McCarthy with runners from Clonliffe Harriers at the start of the VHI Women's Mini-Marathon. Morgan Treacy / INPHO Morgan Treacy / INPHO / INPHO

• A woman who previously delayed the enactment of the Children’s Referendum by nearly three years through litigation lodged a challenge to the abortion referendum in the High Court.
• The father of one of the young men who drowned in Clare earlier this week has told his son’s funeral mass that the “two lads are united forever”.
• A man has been charged in relation to the seizure of a firearm in Dublin 3 yesterday.
• The winning Lotto ticket was sold in Limerick.
• An Irish tourist died after falling from an apartment complex in Magaluf, Spain.
• A man is due in court over the violent death of Patrick O’Donnell in Mitchelstown, Cork on Friday night.
• Over 30,000 women took part in VHI Women’s Mini Marathon in Dublin.
• A woman is in a critical condition after she was knocked off her bike in west Dublin.
• Arlene Foster claimed that Sinn Féin supporters have told her they will vote for the DUP based solely on the unionist party’s abortion stance.

WORLD

Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov moments after arriving back to Earth. Dmitri Lovetsky Dmitri Lovetsky

#GERMANY: A knife-wielding man was shot in Berlin’s main cathedral – police don’t believe he was attempting to carry out a terror attack.

#USA: A teacher is facing jail for allegedly feeding a sick puppy to a snapping turtle.

#TURKEY: Nine people, including six children, drowned in the Mediterranean as they attempted to get to Europe.

PARTING SHOT

Ok, everyone shut up. It’s only bloody happening.

Graham Linehan has announced that a Father Ted musical is on the way. Just take my money along with the rest of the country.

I tell ya now – they’ll be coming from Gdansk to see this one.

Niall Carson Niall Carson

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