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

IRELAND

The crime scene in Swords County Dublin as Gardai and members of the Garda Forensic Team secure the area. Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Nurses who are trained in the US are being denied access to Irish hospitals
• A man in his 30s died after what gardaí believe was an assault in Swords, north Dublin
• A man was arrested after in relation to the robbery of a shop in Rathmines, Dublin
• A new report showed how petrol and diesel prices have fallen for four months in a row
• Gardaí made two arrests in relation to the disappearance of Wicklow man Barry Corcoran
• A man who was seriously injured in a hit and run just after Christmas died in hospital
• Simon Coveney released a statement saying that the trial of Ibrahim Halawa is coming to an end
• It emerged that the Government plans to start refunding people for their water charged from autumn

INTERNATIONAL 

Emmanuel Macron during the commemorative ceremony marking the first anniversary of a jihadist truck attack which killed 86 people in Nice. ABACA / PA Images ABACA / PA Images / PA Images

#NETHERLANDS: Falling crime rates in the country means that the country is using their prisons to house asylum seekers

#CHECHNYA: The leader of the republic has claimed that there are no gay people living in Chechnya

#USA: A new opinion poll has shown that support for Trump has dropped significantly in the last two months

PARTING SHOT 

The new Dr Who was revealed today and there are a lot of people out there who just can’t grasp the concept that the character will be played by a woman for the first time. 

There were people giving out about it on social media so much so that the official Dr Who Twitter page released a statement calling on commentators to stop with the hate-speech.

The funny thing is that these are the same people who see no problem with a time-travelling phone box. But, a woman playing the lead character in a long-running BBC show? Not in our name!