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

IRELAND

Copper stills approach Slane Distillery ahead of their installation. Emer O’Reilly I ORPR Emer O’Reilly I ORPR

• Two reports into the Grace abuse case were released, highlighting major deficiencies in her care
• Former TD Peter Mathews died aged 65
• The NTA announced it would plug some gaps in Bus Éireann services
• Gardaí were investigating a report that a child had been offered for sale in Limerick
• A UK judge called the Tunisian response to a terror attack which killed three Irish citizens “shambolic and cowardly”
• A man accused of being an admin on the Silk Road website was put into custody
• The family of a child left with severe cerebral palsy at birth received an apology from University Hospital Galway

INTERNATIONAL

White House advisor Kellyanne Conway sparked debate with this picture of her with her feet on an Oval Office couch. Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP / AP

#IT’S HIM: Donald Trump claimed that Barack Obama was behind some of the protests against him.

#OLGA KORBUT: A legendary Soviet gymnast has sold her Olympic medal collection to “save herself from starvation”.

#SHARPSHOOTER: Two people were injured when a French policeman accidentally fired on two people at a speech by President Francois Hollande.

PARTING SHOT

US President Donald Trump yesterday said that “nobody” could have predicted how complicated healthcare reform would be. One person who found that proclamation hilarious was senator Bernie Sanders. Watch his reaction as CNN’s Anderson Cooper puts the idea to him.

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