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

IRELAND

Black Rock island, off the coast of Mayo - the site of the crash of Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 116 Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• A preliminary report into the Rescue 116 disaster has revealed a transcript of the last seconds onboard the helicopter.
• Some Bus Éireann services are to resume tonight after the company-wide strike ended after 21 days.
• €12,000 went missing from a Dublin Garda station.
• A man was held in a van after being robbed while walking home from work in Dublin.
• Financial whistleblower Jonathan Sugarman says that ‘official Ireland has destroyed the lives of every person who’s come forward’.
• A Donegal woman has died after falling overboard from a boat on Lough Erne.
• Charity Goal will not lose out on US funding after an investigation into alleged fraud.

WORLD

Crystal Pepper, daughter of United passenger David Dao, pictured at a news conference today in Chicago Teresa Crawford Teresa Crawford

#MOTHER OF ALL: America has dropped the world’s biggest non-nuclear bomb on Afghanistan.

#UNITED: David Dao, the passenger on the infamous United Airlines viral video, has taken his first legal step. It has now emerged he sustained a broken nose, lost two front teeth, and had concussion as a result of the incident.

#NEW YORK: America’s first female Muslim judge has been found dead on a riverbank.

#ASSAD: Syria’s president claims that a recent chemical attack in his country was faked by the US.

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