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

IRELAND

A participant in today's Red Bull Flugtag event at Dún Laoghaire Harbour, Dublin. Morgan Treacy / INPHO Morgan Treacy / INPHO / INPHO

• A man was shot by gardaí who were searching for a young woman who they believe was abducted in Enniskerry, Co Wicklow.
• Savita Halappanavar’s parents encouraged people to vote Yes in Friday’s referendum on repealing the Eighth Amendment.
• Two opinion polls on the Eighth Amendment referendum showed that the Yes side is ahead, with the number of undecided voters declining.
• Met Éireann issued a Status Yellow rainfall warning for 11 counties: Longford, Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Roscommon, Sligo, Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick.
• Sinn Féin is more popular than Fianna Fáil, according to an opinion poll, but Fine Gael remains the most popular political party in the country.
• A major housebuilder is planning to develop more than 200 homes on the site of Dublin’s second-most expensive house.
• Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin spoke to TheJournal.ie about how he reached his own position on the Eighth Amendment.

WORLD

A worker adjusts a floral display as preparations continue for this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. Victoria Jones / PA Wire/PA Images Victoria Jones / PA Wire/PA Images / PA Wire/PA Images

#VENEZUELA: President Nicolas Maduro is expected to win a second six-year term in today’s election, despite a deepening crisis that’s made food scarce and inflation soar.

#SANTA FE: Tributes were paid to the 10 victims of the mass shooting at a school in Texas.

#CUBA: The black box from a Boeing passenger jet that crashed in Cuba, killing 110 people and wounding three others, has been found and is in “good condition“.

#WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said he will demand that the Justice Department reviews whether it or the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign for political purposes.

PARTING SHOT

A loris that was found in a house has been released back into the wild by forest police in Pingbian County in China.

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