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

IRELAND

Juggling Scientist Shane Soper ready to perform for the children at the Science Week Family Open Day in the Convention centre today Keith Arkins Keith Arkins

• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he wants to raise the point at which people pay the top rate of tax to €50,000.
• Fine Gael also warned Fianna Fáil that it’s election ready at its Ard Fheis.
• Only journalists and lawyers are to be allowed text and tweet in court, Ireland’s top judge has said.
• TheJournal.ie went to the frontline of the Drogheda gang feud. Here’s what we found.
• The decision to make history optional for the Junior Cert is set to be reviewed.
• A teenager appeared in court charged with stealing 14 bicycles in Limerick city.
• A new national survey on sexual violence is set to be completed in the next two years.
• The Irish government is open to asylum application from Asia Bibi.
• Has the number of cases taken by banks over arrears halved in two years? Yes, it has.
• Fine Gael to follow GAA footsteps with new disciplinary rules.

INTERNATIONAL

Trump speaking to the media before heading out to California this morning SIPA USA / PA Images SIPA USA / PA Images / PA Images

#ENDGAME: A Brexiteer MP has said Theresa May hasn’t a “cat in hell’s chance” of getting the Brexit deal through parliament.

#ARA SAN JUAN: The wreck of a missing Argentine submarine has been discovered almost a year to the day since it disappeared.

#MBS: The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

PARTING SHOT

Louis Theroux gave a quickfire interview to the Guardian.

One of the questions was: What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

The response is very… Louis Theroux:

They say, don’t sweat the small stuff (it’s all small stuff). Well, actually, some of it’s big stuff.