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

IRELAND

President Michael D Higgins accepts the credentials of the new Rwandan ambassador to ireland Yamina Karitanyi. Twitter / RwandaInUk Twitter / RwandaInUk / RwandaInUk

• Two men who are suing the Air Corps over claims they were exposed to chemicals at Baldonnel Airfield say they have developed cancer.
• The priest at the funeral of a Co Clare teen sounded a warning over what’s believed to be the accidental death of the boy.
• The death of 51-year-old Concepta Leonard in rural Fermanagh is being investigated as an apparent murder-suicide.
• At the Jobstown trial, Paul Murphy’s lawyer accused a garda of lying ‘in a disreputable fashion’.
• A teenager was taken to hospital after being stabbed at a Dominos Pizza restaurant in Dublin.
• The trial of a Dublin man for killing his ex-girlfriend heard there was ‘an element of planning’ to his actions.
• An Taisce have hit out at The Irish Farmers Journal for publishing “fake news” regarding climate change.
• Housing benefits are not helping people get access to the rental market, according to new research.
• A motorist who claimed a clone of her car was responsible for more than 300 unpaid journeys on the M50 has been fined €7,000

WORLD

President Donald Trump listens during his meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Evan Vucci / AP Evan Vucci / AP / AP

#RUSSIA LEAKS: US President Donald Trump says he has the ‘absolute right’ to share classified information with Russian officials after details of a meeting were made public.

#MOORS MURDERS: After the death of serial killer Ian Brady, Manchester police say they will never stop looking for the remains of victim Keith Bennett.

#JEZ WE CAN: Britain’s Labour party has released its election manifesto and pledged to  raise taxes on the well-off, renationalise key industries and end austerity.

PARTING SHOT

My family’s Slave by Alex Tizon.

She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realised who she was. (The Atlantic)