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

IRELAND

On Clontarf Promenade, 40 Clontarf Cub Scouts, with musicians Donal Gunne and Eithne Ní Caitháin (Inni K), performed songs about the sea that they wrote as part of Dublin City Council’s The National Neighbourhood: Mark Stedman Mark Stedman

• 10 houses were evacuated in Strabane, Co Tyrone after a viable explosive device was discovered.
• Health Minister Simon Harris said he does not know how many women have died as a result of the cervical screening controversy.
• The body of an Irish man who went missing in June last year was discovered in Canada.
• Gardaí appealed for help in locating a man missing since Wednesday afternoon.
• There was an appeal for witnesses after three people were injured in a two-vehicle collision between and car and a van yesterday evening.
• A garda remained in hospital after being assaulted with a metal baseball bat in Dublin yesterday.
• Police in Northern Ireland warned members of the public not to take the law into their own hands after two wanted men were assaulted yesterday in Co Armagh.
• The public were asked to check dash cam footage after a cash-in-transit van robbery yesterday.

WORLD

US President Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Macomb County, Michigan last night. Trump decided to skip the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner to travel to Michigan. © Jim West via ZUMA Wire © Jim West via ZUMA Wire

#DINNER: There was a lot of fallout in the US following the annual White House correspondents’ dinner – which was snubbed by US president Donald Trump – last night.

#NORTH KOREA: North Korea promised to close its atomic test site next month and invite US weapons experts to the country.

#AUSTRALIA: Australia pledged half a billion dollars to restore and protect the Great Barrier Reef in what it said would be a game-changer for the embattled natural wonder.

PARTING SHOT

The annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner was held yesterday. US president Donald Trump boycotted the dinner for the second year running, but that didn’t stop him – and his Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders – from getting an almighty roasting.

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