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

IRELAND

A water pipe burst on the Proudstown Road in Navan, Meath, this morning - the second time it's happened at this location. Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Garda Detective Eve Doherty was found guilty of sending abusive letters to a State solicitor.
• RTÉ’s highest earners were revealed and Ryan Tubridy is on top of the list raking in €495,000 every year.
• Thousands of homes in Meath and Clare were left without water due to burst pipes.
• A man whose body was discovered in Carlow town last week was identified.
• Police in the US are searching for an Irish man who went missing during a hike on the Pacific Crest Trail.
• The Government asked the public to respond to a survey on the possible regulation of rickshaws.
• A man was arrested by gardaí investigating the death of 26-year-old woman Amy McCarthy in Cork in April.
• A couple has gone to court as the birth of their eighth child meant they were removed from the housing list as their welfare income jumped to just over €29,000.
• Mountjoy Prison was put under lockdown yesterday morning after a package of drugs made its way into an exercise yard.
• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that the politicians who didn’t pay their tabs at the Dáil bar should have the arrears taken from their salaries.

WORLD

Pupils should be taught about the importance of breastfeeding in schools, leading children's doctors in the UK said. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#SCARAMUCCI: Here’s what the former US comms director did in each of his 11 days in charge.

#VENEZUELA: The US announced that it has frozen the assets of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and labelled him a “dictator”.

#TURKEY: Nearly 500 people were put on trial today in relation to the failed coup in the country last year.

PARTING SHOT

Relations between the islands of Ireland and Great Britain have come a long way in recent decades.

But for all our similarities, there are always those little idiosyncrasies which prove the marked difference between our two cultures.

The latest evidence of this phenomenon – Dara Ó Briain and his use of the word ‘chipper’.

The DailyEdge.ie reports here on how an innocuous tweet by the Bray comedian left thousands of Brits scratching their heads.

Comments are off as legal proceedings are ongoing in at least one of the above stories.

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