Amy Louise Gavin practices yoga in the spring sunshine in Glasgow this afternoon PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

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

IRISH

Twins Abby and Sarah Collins, from Sallins, Co.Kildare, who will compete in this year’s Aldi Community Games Rollingnews.ie Rollingnews.ie

• The driver who hit and killed a Kildare councillor was speeding and didn’t brake, a court has heard.
• Jim Gavin will remain Dublin manager for at least another two years.
• Intel has been cleared to build a second plant at its Kildare base.
• The Irish Restaurant Awards has come under fire for having an all-male panel.
• Senior gardaí have said that the breath test scandal is a resource issue.
• An investigation has been launched into an alleged sexual assault in Dublin city centre.
• Gardaí have arrested a couple for acting as ‘spotters’ for the man who killed Noel ‘Duck Egg’ Kirwan.

INTERNATIONAL

FBI Director James Comey Carolyn Kaster Carolyn Kaster

#FARAGE: Nigel Farage has said that the EU is ‘stoking Irish nationalism’.

#MAYDAY: Theresa May has accused the EU of making ‘threats against Britain’ to influence the coming general election there.

#COMEY: FBI director James Comey says he’s ‘nauseous’ at the thought he had an influence on the US election result.

PARTING SHOT

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So, did Melania Trump really just ‘like’ a tweet saying  that ‘the only wall Donald Trump has managed to build is between him and his wife’?

The tweet has since been ‘unliked’ again, so we may never know.

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