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

IRELAND

Presidential candidate Gavin Duffy at the Tullamore Show in Co Offaly.Source: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

• An investigation has been launched into the sudden death of a woman in Louth.
• A Dublin parish priest has stepped aside to allow for the investigation of historical allegations.
• Survivors and families of those killed in the Omagh bombing have held an interfaith service to mark its 20-year anniversary.
• Three men and a woman were arrested in Co Louth after the seizure of a handgun.
• Injuries or near-injuries of patients at Irish hospitals jumped last year, according to new figures.
• A woman who was sacked on the same day she told employer she had to attend pregnancy appointment was awarded €10,000.
• The Dublin Cycling Campaign held a protest cycle in the city.
• Tyrone beat Monaghan by a single point to book a place in the All-Ireland football final.

WORLD

Friends of Richard Russell, who stole a plane from Seattle airport, comfort each other.Source: Bettina Hansen/PA Images

#RICHARD RUSSELL: The  family of an airline employee who stole a passenger plane from a Seattle airport and crashed it have paid tribute to a "faithful husband and loving son".

#NASA: A $1.5 billion spaceprobe has blasted off towards the Sun a day after the planned launch.

#BREXIT: A new analysis of of Brexit polling has suggested that a huge amount of UK constituencies that voted to leave the EU would now vote differently.

#WHITE HOUSE TAPES: Former US presidential advisor Omarosa Manigault Newman has released conversations she secretly recorded in the White House.

PARTING SHOT

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Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan made history at the European Championships by winning a gold medal, Ireland's first ever medal at that level of gymnastics.