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

IRISH

An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar with Fingal Student Enterprise Programme Winner, Hannah Boyle Conroy of Sign Solutions at Blakestown Community School today. JOE KEOGH JOE KEOGH

• Two people died in a light aircraft crash in Belfast
• Calls were made for Denis Naughten  to stand aside
• The head of Scouting Ireland  announced he would stand aside
• Kevin “Boxer” Moran kept his junior ministry over Sean Canney
• A British transport company signed a contract to run 24 Dublin Bus routes
• A sexual education bill  progressed despite Fianna Fáil opposition
• The weather was only gorgeous
• Support for Sinn Féin rose in a new poll

INTERNATIONAL

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a TESS spacecraft lifts off. Red Huber Red Huber

#BLAST OFF: A NASA spaceship designed to scan the skies for signs of planets where life may exist outside of our solar system was launched.

#TOUGH BREAK:  Nestle got the thumbs down from a key EU advisor in a case over the four-fingered wafer biscuit Kit Kat.

#FREE TO TALK: A media group has agreed to release an ex-Playboy model from a deal that stopped her from discussing an alleged affair with US President Donald Trump.

PARTING SHOT

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