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

Ireland 

People pass by a Big Love mural in Dublin city centre Sasko Lazarov Sasko Lazarov

• There were more than 4,300 notices to quit served to tenants in the last three months of 2022, new figures from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) have shown.
• The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors has said that they cannot yet rule out industrial action during US President Joe Biden’s visit next week.
• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has denied a claim that he overruled Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien on a proposal to extend the eviction ban beyond 1 April.
• Sinn Féin TD Eoin Ó Broin has had a “very positive” conversation with a Garda representative after he was criticised over sharing an image which depicted gardaí edited into a famine-era eviction scene.
• The search of a site in Monaghan for the remains of Columba McVeigh, one of the “Disappeared”, has restarted after being paused in November due to “dangerous” ground conditions.
• Irish music promoters and venues are worried that it will become financially unfeasible for international artists to put on shows here, with smaller artists raising concerns about the cost of performing in Ireland.
• Met Éireann has said that last month was provisionally the wettest March on record, with 173.3mm of rain falling from the sky.
• A modest slowdown in asking price inflation has continued in the first quarter of this year, with the market constrained by poor supply and impacted by a range of both positive and negative factors, according to the latest quarterly property report from MyHome.ie.

International

The plane carrying former president Donald Trump lifts off at Palm Beach International Airport Rebecca Blackwell / AP Rebecca Blackwell / AP / AP

#TRUMP INDICTMENT The former US President has departed from his resort home in Florida and is currently travelling to New York as he prepares to surrender to criminal charges. Donald Trump was indicted by a grand jury last week on multiple counts related to hush money payments to an adult film actress during the 2016 presidential campaign

#NATO MEMBERSHIP Finland’s flag will be hoisted outside Nato headquarters tomorrow when it becomes the 31st member of the Western alliance, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said.

#UKRAINE Russia’s paramilitary Wagner group has claimed it has captured the city hall in Ukraine’s eastern town of Bakhmut, giving it “legal” control, but Kyiv said its forces still hold the town.

Parting Shot

This afternoon, US space agency NASA announced the crew that would make up the Artemis II, which will fly around the moon next year.

The mission is scheduled to take place in November 2024, with the four person crew due to fly around the moon but they will not land on it.

The crew will be made up of Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Hammock Koch and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen.

Following the Artemis II mission, NASA intends to send a mission to the lunar surface in 2025.

Here they are. @SenBillNelson announces the #Artemis II crew, the next astronauts to fly around the Moon:@Astro_Christina@Astro_Jeremy@AstroVicGlover@Astro_Reid

We go together. https://t.co/XdUizg2Wye pic.twitter.com/6Yo4I2lKeJ

— NASA (@NASA) April 3, 2023