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

IRELAND

Taoiseach Enda Kenny at the launch of the Enterprise Ireland Eurozone Strategy 2017 - 2020 in Dublin today Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• A murder accused, who used a fake Facebook profile to meet his ex-girlfriend, told his psychiatrist he had intended tying Sonia Blount to a chair and forcing her to listen to an account of his suffering, but didn’t intend to kill her, a court heard.
• A car driven by a 37-year-old father of two exploded and spun 10 feet in the air during a fatal accident involving two articulated lorries, an inquest heard.
• HSE employees were told to turn on their computers when they got to work this morning – but not to log in – to allow for anti-virus capability to activate in the wake of a massive global cyberattack.
• The Department of Defence was accused of an “embarrassing” blunder by selling off the LÉ Aisling for a fraction of the price the State could have received for the Navy vessel.
• Video footage was played at the trial of Solidarity TD Paul Murphy and others showing fellow protesters apparently shouting at the politician and telling him to “mind his own business” at a protest in Jobstown in 2014.
• Sinn Féin called for Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald to answer questions in relation to the alleged phone tapping of a political activist.
• Fewer people are being jailed for the non-payment of court-ordered fines.
• People were asked to report any sightings of coypus after one of the large rat-like rodents was seen in Cork city.

WORLD

Ella Thurtle, nine, presents Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn with a box of cakes at the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth Victoria Jones / PA Wire/PA Images Victoria Jones / PA Wire/PA Images / PA Wire/PA Images

#UK: British Prime Minister Theresa May was confronted by an angry voter over welfare cuts while she was campaigning today ahead of June’s general election.

#US: Government lawyers again tried to persuade a federal appeals court to reinstate President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, denying it discriminates against Muslims.

#ITALY: Authorities have broken up a mafia ring accused of infiltrating one of the country’s largest migrant reception centres and capitalising on asylum seekers with the help of a Catholic association.

#UK: Kelvin MacKenzie left The Sun newspaper “by mutual consent” after controversy over comments he made about English footballer Ross Barkley.

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