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

IRELAND

(LtoR) Grace Dooley, Lara Gilbert, Julia Rydzewska, Oran Phelan, Alex McCann, and Liam Kehoe at Day Four of the Punchestown Racing Festival in Co Kildare Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

• Gardaí are investigating after the body of a woman was found in a Waterford apartment.
• A court has heard how a former Sinn Féin councillor ‘waterboarded and threatened to chop up a man’.
• Joan Burton continued giving her evidence to the Jobstown protest trial.
• The government has been attacked over claims it is ‘standing in the way’ of an inquest into the Kingsmill massacre in Northern Ireland.
• A motorcyclist has died after a collision with a 4×4 in Tipperary.
• A man escaped the custody of Limerick District Court after being refused bail for… skipping custody.
• There have been calls for the Sisters of Charity to detail exactly what procedures will be possible at the new National Maternity Hospital.
• A trainee electrician has been charged with providing funding to a foreign terrorist group.
• A Dublin landlord is offering a discount to tenants – if they pay 12 months’ rent up front.

WORLD

Donald Trump, speaking at the National Rifle Association's leadership forum in Atlanta, Georgia, today Evan Vucci Evan Vucci

#UK: A woman is in a serious condition after being shot by British anti-terrorist police.

#CONFLICT: Donald Trump says the potential for a “major, major conflict” with North Korea exists.

#ARKANSAS: The US state has brought a spree of executions to a close after putting another prisoner to death.

PARTING SHOT

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Donald Trump has had a lot to say about other countries in his 99 days thus far as US president. The BBC has put together a handy, searchable guide as to just what American relations have been like with foreign powers over the past three months.

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