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

IRELAND

The launch of the 2018 Cork Midsummer Festival programme, which runs from 15-24 June. Mark Stedman Mark Stedman

• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said there will be a redress scheme for women affected by the CervicalCheck controversy (and if you’re wondering do you need to get a repeat smear test, here’s an explainer on that)
• Former garda press officer David Taylor was “bitter” about being moved from the press office, the Disclosures Tribunal heard
• Coca-Cola announced the closure of its Kildare plant, where 82 jobs will be lost
• The husband of murdered woman Natalia Karaczyn was questioned by gardaí
• Mobile app transfers weren’t appearing in some Ulster Bank accounts
• A Clare man pleaded guilty to uploading pictures of local girls to a porn website
• Liverpool instructed their fans “under no circumstances” to walk to the Stadio Olimpico for tonight’s Champions League semi-final second leg against Roma.

WORLD

A rainbow over St Mary's lighthouse at Whitley Bay, in Tyne and Wear. PA Images PA Images

#UK CANCER SCREENING: MPs were told that up to 270 women may have died because they missed a breast screening – caused possibly by an IT error.

#BIG BUCKS: Two black men arrested for sitting at a Philadelphia Starbucks settled for a symbolic $1 each and a promise from the city to set up a $200k youth programme.

#FACEBOOK DATA: Cambridge Analytica announced it is “immediately ceasing all operations” and filing for insolvency in Britain and the United States.

#FITNESS TO SERVE: Donald Trump dictated a note to his former doctor in which he gushed about his excellent health.

PARTING SHOT

Kanye West is getting a lot of flack for saying that black slavery in the US was a choice – but the response given by TMZ reporter Van Lathan is a soothing, satisfying response.

Here’s a short clip of the exchange, a 13-minute YouTube video of the interview, and a written snippet of the best part:

Kanye (shouting): Do you feel that I’m being free, and I’m thinking free?

Van Lathan: I actually don’t think you’re thinking anything. I think what you’re doing right now is actually the absence of thought.

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