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

IRELAND

Armagh rose Nicole McKeown (centre) at the launch of the Rose of Tralee festival, which takes place later this month. Brian Lawless / PA Images Brian Lawless / PA Images / PA Images

• Dublin Bus has lost 10% of its suburban bus routes to a private UK transport company called Go-Ahead.
• There were 6,906 people recorded as being homeless on census night 2016, 123 of those were sleeping rough.
• The family of Jason Corbett has thanked supporters in the wake of yesterday’s guilty verdict in the murder trial of Jason’s wife and her father.
• A sculpture in a small tourist village in West Cork was destroyed last night after a group of individuals caused “absolute chaos”.
• A man connected to the Regency Hotel gangland shooting has died at his home from a terminal illness.
• The GAA has announced it has cancelled a number of tickets for an All-Ireland football semi-final that were being sold above face value by online vendors.
• A British lotto millionaire accused of sexual acts with a child in Ireland has had his bail placed at €200,000.

WORLD

US President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence. Evan Vucci / PA Images Evan Vucci / PA Images / PA Images

#NUCLEAR TENSIONS: US President Donald Trump has said that his “fire and fury” threat to North Korea “may not be tough enough”.

#EGG HEADACHE: Around 700,000 eggs in the UK are thought to be contaminated with an insecticide, but authorities in Ireland say there’s no risk here.

#CCTV: Police in London investigating an assault where a jogger appeared to push a woman into the path of an oncoming bus in Putney have made an arrest.

#GROPING LAWSUIT: Pop star Taylor Swift has testified that a former radio DJ reached under her skirt and grabbed her backside.

PARTING SHOT

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