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

IRELAND

One of the student innovators at Cork Education & Training Board's celebration of enterprise at its Enabling Entrepreneurship Showcase at City Hall in Cork. Jim Coughlan Jim Coughlan

• The government’s new State-backed personal investment scheme will be up and running next year according to Finance Minister Simon Harris- here’s what we know.
• A delivery driver was forced to drive a ‘crude but viable’ explosive device in his vehicle to a police station in Northern Ireland last night.
• Martina and Ammi Burke arrested on foot of order that they should be jailed for contempt of court.
• The bodies of two fishermen have been recovered from the sea off the Co Clare coast this afternoon.
• President Catherine Connolly appointed seven people to the Council of State.
• Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly has called for “legislative change” after a garda member was prosecuted for dangerous driving over an illegal scrambler chase.
• Gardaí are investigating after a well-known Limerick hip hop artist and instructor was blinded in one eye in a road rage attack last weekend.

INTERNATIONAL

Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike hits a building near the airport road in Beirut, Lebanon. Hussein Malla / AP Hussein Malla / AP / AP

#IRAN: Donald Trump lashed out at allies who refused to get involved in the attacks on Iran, telling them that the US “won’t be there to help you anymore” and to get their own oil from the Strait of Hormuz.

#UKRAINE: Our News Correspondent Niall O’Connor is in Ukraine, where Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee has arrived in Kyiv on a two-day visit to coincide with a meeting of EU ministers.

#SCOTT MILLS: Former BBC Radio 2 presenter Scott Mills was questioned by police over allegations of serious sexual offences against a teenage boy under 16 in 2018, but the case was dropped due to lack of evidence.

PARTING SHOT

Tiger Woods is pictured in his booking photo taken last Friday, 27 March, following his arrest. Alamy Live News Alamy Live News

Legendary golfer Tiger Woods was arrested last Friday after his SUV clipped a trailer being pulled by a pickup truck near his Florida home.

On this week’s The42FM, Sinead O’Carroll and Gavin Cooney discuss the rise and prolonged downfall of golf’s greatest ever player.

Is the near-constant scrutiny, overwhelming fame and atypical childhood enough to engender sympathy for Woods, despite his continued driving offences which put others as well as himself in grave danger?

Or has perhaps the most recognisable athletes of the 20th century run out of chances with the public?

You can listen here.