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

IRELAND

Specialist ship The Granuaile arrived at Blacksod Bay today as the search continues for missing helicopter Rescue 116. Peter Byrne / PA Images Peter Byrne / PA Images / PA Images

• The Coast Guard and the RNLI rescued eight people from an overturned boat off the coast of Sligo.
• Lynn Boylan MEP claimed that Ibrahim Halawa is ‘being kept alive by glucose injections’ in the Egyptian jail in which he is held.
• There have been appeals to help a Clare family after a three-year-old girl was killed in a car crash.
• Three people were charged over a stabbing in Longford town on St Patrick’s Day.
• Traffic flow changes are set to come into effect on Dublin’s O’Connell Bridge.
• A woman was arrested in connection with the murder of a prominent loyalist in Co Antrim.
• There are plans to build a €19m visitors centre and a treetop walkway at the Hellfire Club in Dublin.

WORLD

A woman strokes an Italian Spinone dog during the gundog parade at the West of England Game Fair. Ben Birchall / PA Images Ben Birchall / PA Images / PA Images

#RIP: Tributes have been paid from the entertainment world and beyond for rock n’ roll legend Chuck Berry who died aged 90.

#DIPLOMATIC DISPUTE: The German defence minister strongly rejected claims by US President Donald Trump that Berlin owes NATO “vast sums of money”.

#ORLY ATTACK: A French prosecutor claimed that the man shot at a Paris airport after trying to grab a gun had shown “signs of radicalisation” during a prison term.

PARTING SHOT
https://www.facebook.com/JonoAndBen/videos/1371634142917338/

A parody of the viral BBC interview with Prof. Robert Kelly has gone, er, viral.

The skit sets the interview from the perspective of a “working woman” and shows how women are often expected to take a number of roles within the household.

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