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

IRELAND

Pictured are patients from Temple St and Crumlin hospitals Isabel Kiernan (10), Minister for Health Simon Harris TD, Max Cleary (13), An Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD, Darragh Barry-Donnachie (14) and Ashleigh Kiernan (10) at the cast of the foundation stone for New Children's Hospital on the site. Sam Boal Sam Boal

• Sean Fitzpatrick was declared a free man
• A man was stabbed to death in Limerick
• The Jobstown trial continued
• A whiskey distillery for Dublin was given the go-ahead
• Vandals tried to cut down the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge
• A court case taken by the husband of a woman killed following a collision between a Luas and a car was settled
• Leo Varadkar called Sinn Féin a “threat to our democracy”
• A Dublin restaurant closed following an outbreak of food poisoning

INTERNATIONAL

This aerial photo shows a massive landslide along California's coastal Highway 1 that has buried the road under a 40-foot layer of rock and dirt. John Madonna via AP John Madonna via AP

#MANCHESTER: The father and brother of the Manchester bomber were arrested in Libya, as victims were named.

#MEETING: Donald Trump met the Pope as the two met face-to-face after some previous clashes.

#WHOOPS: The US Army failed to keep tabs on over $1 billion worth of arms and other military equipment in Iraq and Kuwait, according to a Department of Defense audit.

PARTING SHOT

Garth Brooks coming to Ireland in 2018? It doesn’t look like it.

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