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

Siun Keegan - Murphy aged 7 from Leitrim with supporters outside Leinster House in Dublin today. Love Leitrim welcomed the passing of the legislative ban on fracking as it completed the final stage in the Seanad today and will now be sent to the President to be signed into law. Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Education Minister Richard Bruton announced that he will remove religion as a criteria in schools’ admission processes.
• The anti-fracking bill passed through its final stage in the Oireachtas and will soon become law.
• The jury in the trial of six men accused of falsely imprisoning former Tánaiste Joan Burton were told that if they were not satisfied the women were totally restrained in the Avensis car in the churchyard, then “the prosecution case has fallen at the first hurdle”.
• Gardaí and the HSA are investigating after a man died last night after falling into a slurry pit.

WORLD

Football fans during the 15 April 1989 Hillsborough disaster PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#UNITED KINGDOM: The Crown Prosecution Service has decided to bring charges against six people referred to it over the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.

#VENEZUELA: The military were put on alert today against an alleged coup after a renegade police detective claimed responsibility for a grenade attack on the Supreme Court.

#UKRAINE: A cyber attack that swept the world was likely initially aimed at Ukraine, experts have said.

PARTING SHOT

Following on from news of a fake Time Magazine cover of Donald Trump at his golf clubs, The Guardian has imagined what some other Trump covers might looks like.