Pedestrians doing their best to hold off the rain on Grafton Street in Dublin Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

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

IRELAND

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• Fianna Fáil is to abstain from a vote of no confidence in the Government due to take place this week.
• Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald endured a torrid afternoon on RTÉ’s The Week in Politics.
• The body of a man in his 60s was discovered by the side of the N17 road in Galway.
• Seven drink drivers were arrested in the Kildare area in just 24 hours.
• A lack of dental care at Irish nursing homes is seeing some patients needing up to 20 teeth extracted at once.
• The union representing Tesco workers says it will call off this Tuesday’s strike if the company commits to not altering the contracts of long-term workers.
• Two women died in separate road collisions this morning.
• You’ll now be able to access your Netflix account from every country in the EU.
• Gambian people are using the Irish Credit Union system to get themselves out of poverty.
• Bertie Ahern says Theresa May’s Brexit strategy is putting peace in the North at risk.
• Grave doubts have been expressed that Irish hospitals could cope with a massive disaster.

INTERNATIONAL

A man watches a TV news programme reporting about North Korea's missile-launch at Seoul Train Station in the South Korean city this morning Lee Jin-man Lee Jin-man

#NORTH KOREA: The hermit nation has fired a ballistic missile, drawing a tough response from Donald Trump.

#GERMANY: Over 50 people were injured as a ‘strange smell’ shut down Hamburg airport.

PARTING SHOT

In case you missed it, Melissa McCarthy’s take on White House Press Secretary Seán ‘Spicey’ Spicer on last night’s Saturday Night Live is a bit of a treat:

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