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

Giselly Vieira and Carolina Martins from Brazil enjoying the sunny weather in St Stephen's Green today Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

IRELAND

• An investigation is under way after the death of a pregnant woman at the National Maternity Hospital.
• A woman has appeared in court charged with withholding information on the killing of Gareth Hutch.
• Ireland could be set to go to war with the European Commission over Irish Water.
• A pregnant teenager has been missing from Rathfarnham for two weeks.
• Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald is to introduce tough new laws targeting drug dealers’ cash amongst other things.
• The niece of Gerry Hutch will not face extra jail time for attacking a Garda with a syringe despite her “astronomical” number of convictions.
• CityJet is to hire and train ten new pilots.
• Electricity bills are set to increase across the board.
• Enda Kenny has described Donald Trump as ‘racist and dangerous’.
• A man in Tralee has died after being hit by a car.
• Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of David Byrne.
• A day of industrial action has taken place at the Oberstown child detention facility.
• A man sustained serious injuries to his fingers following an attack in Waterford.
• There are many grandparents in Ireland fighting for the custody of their grandchildren.
• Irish Ferries is splashing out on a new €144 million ferry.
• The Luas strikes planned for this Thursday and Friday have been called off.
• The Taoiseach reckons that border controls could return if Britain leaves the EU.
• Summer is here – for a few days at least.

WORLD

Rachael Fee (left), who is also known as Rachael Trelfa, and her partner Nyomi Fee leaving the High Court in Livingston, Scotland in April. The two were today convicted of murdering Rachael's son Liam. Danny Lawson Danny Lawson

#MEXICO: It has emerged that a footballer kidnapped in the Central American country beat his captor up in order to free himself.

#SCOTLAND: A mother and her partner have been convicted of murdering her two-year-old son.

#JAPAN: Concern is growing for a seven-year-old boy who was abandoned in a bear-inhabited forest as punishment.

INNOVATION

• The EU has new rules when it comes to hate speech on social media, and they’re being seen as a ‘symbolic statement’.
• Did you ever have a MySpace account? You may want to revisit it – there’s been an enormous data leak from the site.

PARTING SHOT

Two Muslim women were confronted by a less-than bright racist on the street in Exeter in the UK. So they went after him to ask him why and recorded the whole thing on a smartphone. The result is amusing and depressing in equal measure.
https://www.facebook.com/kalsoom.naqvi.5/videos/541027379409492/

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