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

Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar (L) with President of the European Council, Jean-Claude Juncker as he signs the visitors book in Government Buildings Sam Boal Sam Boal

IRELAND

• Mick Wallace told the Disclosures Tribunal there was a campaign to smear Maurice McCabe
• Temperatures will reach as high as 29 degrees next week
• Jean-Claude Juncker spoke to the Dáil and said the EU is behind Ireland
• A rape conviction was quashed over a ruling that prevented a 15-year-old girl being asked about the contraceptive pill 
• The third retrial involving a Cavan childminder collapsed
• The trial of a man accused of David Black‘s murder also collapsed
• There were widespread complaints about Bank of Ireland debit cards being declined but the bank has now resolved the issue
• A second day of strike action is set to take place at 34 Lloyds Pharmacy outlets around the country tomorrow in a row over pay

WORLD

#USA The CEO of Intel resigned over a ‘past consensual relationship’  with an employee

#KOKO The famous gorilla Koko, who mastered sign language, has died 

#ISRAEL Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife was charged with fraud and breach of trust 

#NEW ZEALAND Prime Minister Jacinda Arden gave birth to a baby girl

#TRUMP Donald Trump ordered an end to separation of migrant children but said the border ‘is going to be just as tough’

PARTING SHOT

Time magazine hit out at Donald Trump’s border separation policy with its latest cover photo:

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