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

IRELAND

Sinead Dunphy, Festival Director, Guinness Cork Jazz Festival at Cork Community Art Link. Clare Keogh Clare Keogh

• It emerged that tough new AirBnB laws will ban short-term lets be landlords.
• Fianna Fáíl and Fine Gael met today to discuss extending the confidence and supply agreement between the two parties.
• Westlife announced a second Croke Park gig minutes after they sold out their first.
• Gardaí officially named the victim of a fatal shooting in north Cork as 58-year-old Derek Coakley.
• A Limerick man was jailed for six years for raping one of his daughters and sexually abusing two of his other children.
• The first votes in the presidential election were cast today by a number of islanders off the west coast.
• Gardaí seized a luxury car, a Rolex watch and €2k in cash in seizures in Dublin.

INTERNATIONAL

A ring tailed lemur sits next to carved pumpkins at Blair Drummond Safari Park in the UK. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#FINAL STRAW: The EU parliament has approved a ban on single use plastics.

#MYANMAR: The UN said that a genocide is ongoing against Rohingya muslims.

#FINLAND: Here’s how the Scandinavian country effectively ended homelessness.

PARTING SHOT

Watch out! The fuzz are after ya. 

Gardaí in Naas were in a flap trying to get a swan off a rural road yesterday. 

Have a gander.