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

IRELAND

The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival got under way in earnest today. Clare Keogh Clare Keogh

• The boil water notice for 600,000 people in Dublin, Kildare and Meath was lifted this evening with immediate effect.
• DUP leader Arlene Foster blamed Leo Varadkar for “setting a precedent” with comments on the potential for violence after Brexit.
• Boy A and Boy B are due to face a sentence hearing next Tuesday for the murder of Ana Kriegel.
• Fine Gael MEP Maria Walsh has defended voting down a move to enhance rescue operations for migrants.
• A man who was assaulted in Cork city last month has died of his injuries.
• A Status Yellow rainfall warning is in place for six counties this evening.
• A man who was charged over the gunpoint robbery near the Guinness Storehouse earlier this week was denied bail.
• Revenue lost out on €100 million it was owed in the last five years because of “inability to pay”. 
• Ulster Bank resolved a glitch that meant many of its customers didn’t get their wages. 
• An Irish hip hop group who former Tory MP Rory Stewart called “minor gangsters” have said his comments “come from a racist place”.

INTERNATIONAL

Essex Police deputy chief constable Pippa Mills addressing media. Yui Mok / PA Images Yui Mok / PA Images / PA Images

#ACTOR’S HOUR: Women confronted Harvey Weinstein as he attended a New York actors showcase.

#ESSEX: Another three people were arrested in connection with the death of 39 people found in a lorry in Essex.

#BREXTENSION: The EU hasn’t yet granted a Brexit extension while all eyes are on London to see if a general election will be called.

PARTING SHOT

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Kanye West is causing a stir again, as fans eagerly await his latest album Jesus is King. 

In a wide-ranging interview with Zane Lowe, he talks porn, religion and his own music.

As always, the self-promoter didn’t mince his words.

“I’m unquestionably, undoubtedly, the greatest human artist of all time,” he said. “It’s just not even a question anymore.”

There you go, now.