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

IRELAND

From (LtoR): Temple Street patients Kayla Friel (7), Bernard Kearny (6) and Lily Foul at a Lindt Chocolate Gold Bunny fundraiser. Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Tensions between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil over the water committee are putting a strain on Ireland’s minority government.
• The wreckage of downed Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116 has been brought ashore.
• It transpired that Bank of Ireland was granted an order for possession of land it has no right to.
• A man has been charged with murder after the fatal Kerry crash between a car and a teleporter.
• Ibrahim Halawa’s trial judge is considering releasing him on medical grounds.
• A man in his 80s died following a house fire in rural Clare.
• The family of a man who died in a tragic Dublin car crash said they were “absolutely disgusted” by the sentence for the driver.
• An Oireachtas debate over drink driving laws led to some wild claims.
• There was a breakthrough in the case of Trevor Deely, who went missing over 16 years ago.
• FAI boss John Delaney was elected to a lucrative position in Uefa.
• Angela Kerins won two-thirds of the costs from her failed case against an Oireachtas committee.
• Kevin O’Sullivan resigned as editor of the Irish Times.

WORLD

A protest in Germany against the use of chemical weapons in Syria. DPA / PA Images DPA / PA Images / PA Images

#SYRIA: There’s been global condemnation following a suspected chemical attack in rebel-held northwest Syria that killed scores of civilians.

#GONE: US president Donald Trump removed chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council.

#BACKLASH: Pepsi pulled a controversial ad featuring Kendall Jenner after if it was accused of commercialising protesters and making light of the Black Lives Matter movement.

PARTING SHOT

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