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

IRELAND

Prince Charles having a good time down in Kilkenny today. Damien Eagers / Rollingnews.ie Damien Eagers / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• The EU’s top negotiator for Brexit told the Dáil “the Irish interests will be the union’s interest“.
• The Dáil heard that the treatment of deceased activist Dara Quigley from the gardaí was “deplorable and revolting”.
• A man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend wanted to hack her Facebook page and told his sister that she was “ripping him off”.
• An investigation has been launched into allegations of serious abuse at a centre for those with intellectual disabilities.
• US President Donald Trump said that Ireland has done “an amazing job” and deserves “a lot of credit”.
• These train stations were voted the best in Ireland.
• Nasa took a picture of Ireland’s gorse fires. Here’s how it looks.
• Gardaí discovered a cannabis grow house with plants worth up to €1.5 million in Dublin.
• The Jobstown trial heard that one of the defendants told Joan Burton that she could “take sanctuary in a church”.
• A group of Monaghan students scooped a top innovation award for their mental health project.
• Local media reports said an Irish woman was stabbed to death in Morocco.

INTERNATIONAL

BBC's Laura Kuenssberg comforts her her colleague, BBC cameraman Giles Wooltorton, after the car carrying Jeremy Corbyn ran over his foot Yui Mok PA Wire / PA Images Yui Mok PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#LABOUR PAINS: On the campaign trail, it was a bad day for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as the party’s manifesto was leaked to the press, and his car drove over a cameraman’s foot.

#COMPROMISE: Netflix is having a row with the Cannes Film Festival after refusing to release its “original” movies in France.

#SNAP NOT-HAPPY: Snapchat’s shares plunged as it posted losses of €2 billion.

PARTING SHOT

Not campaigning in the general election this time around is former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.

He’s taken over as editor for the London Evening Standard newspaper.

He looked happy to be leaving politics earlier this week, but stepping outside the Westminster bubble appears to have taken a toll.

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