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

IRELAND

Garda crime scene tape blocks Grafton Street as forensic experts search for clues after a fatal stabbing. Rollingnews.ie Rollingnews.ie

• A 21-year-old man has died following a stabbing on Clarendon Street, Dublin 2, in the early hours of this morning.
• Irish consumers are taking on an increasing amount of debt to buy cars.
• Fianna Fáil has confirmed that TD Malcolm Byrne told the party he was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving in Dublin.
• A man in his 50s has died following a three-vehicle collision on the N52 at Dunmahon, Co Louth on Sunday.
• Gardaí are trying to determine what caused the death of a man who swam across the River Liffey after an assault in the War Memorial Gardens. 
• A woman who claims she was abused by Jeffrey Donaldson as a child has said the former DUP leader’s wife “did nothing about it” after she informed her about one alleged incident.
• A game where players guess the rent for one-bed apartments in Dublin has been played over 20,000 times in the last week and a half.

INTERNATIONAL

Yachs competing in the three-boat final of the Mubadala New York Sail Grand Prix on New York Harbor. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#THE ATLANTIC French special forces have boarded and seized an alleged Russian Shadow Fleet oil tanker 700 kilometres off the Brittany coast and south of Ireland, the country’s President has said.  

#BRITAIN Peter Mandelson said the British government would “never regret” appointing him as Britain’s ambassador to the US, a note published alongside thousands of documents about the posting has revealed.

#LEBANON The UN Security Council is set to hold an emergency meeting Monday on the fighting in Lebanon after Israel’s military took over the medieval castle of Beaufort in Lebanese territory.

PARTING SHOT

Today is officially the first day of summer according to Met Éireann – although the weather might suggest otherwise.

But according to the Gaelic calendar, summer starts on Bealtaine, 1 May, and ends 31 July. To complicate things further, the astronomical summer in Ireland doesn’t begin until the summer solstice on 21 June.

However, Met Éireann’s meteorological definition is in line with most European institutes’ definition of summer and with what the World Meteorological Organisation says.

Today we asked: When do you think summer starts?

The results are in:

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