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

Labour Party leader, Brendan Howlin joined by the the party's chair, Jack O'Connor, for the annual James Connolly Commemoration at Arbour Hill in Dublin. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• A man was arrested after a woman in her 20s died from injuries she sustained at a house in Kilkenny.
• A British councillor was suspended after an anti-Irish racist tweet was sent from his account.
• There were allegations that gardaí created a profile report usually reserved for gangland criminals for whistleblower Keith Harrison.
• Six people were injured after a car crashed in Cavan in the early hours of the morning.
• Leo Varadkar is leading the race to win the Fine Gael leadership, a new opinion poll has found.
• An Irish footballer has been charged in relation to the seizure of €240,000 worth of cannabis.
• Gardaí are going to be cracking down on teenage drinkers who are using good weather as an excuse to get drunk.
• A cyclist died after he was involved in a collision with a 4×4.

WORLD

Kim Jong Un looks on as North Korea tested a ballistic missile yesterday. Ahn Young-joon Ahn Young-joon

#USA: Donald Trump called for tougher sanctions against North Korea after it fired a ballistic missile early this morning.

#HACKING: There has been over 200,000 victims of the worldwide cyberattack.

#RUSSIA: A state-controlled TV station in Russia has removed an unflattering mention of Putin from a dubbed version of US programme Fargo.

#FRANCE: Emmanuel Macron was sworn in as President of France.

PARTING SHOT

Unsurprisingly, our parting shot today has to be about the Eurovision.

Portugal went on to win the competition but there were more than murmurs on both sides of the Irish Sea when Ireland neglected to give the Brits a solitary point.

Most saw the funny side, leading to some neighbourly digs.

We’ll let the DailyEdge fill you in.

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