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

IRELAND

Graffiti artists work on a mural of hit TV show Derry Girls on the wall of Badgers Bar on Orchard Street in Derry. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

• Leo Varadkar said soldiers could return to the border if Brexit goes “very wrong”
• Nurses’ union and government talks to avoid a strike collapsed
• A man was arrested in connection with an alleged sexual assault at a hospital
• A 22-week wait for smear test results has been criticised as “totally unacceptable”
• People were asked to report images or footage of a fatal M50 crash
• A garda was arrested in relation to an investigation into alleged criminal offences.
• A married man was jailed for the oral rape and sexual exploitation of a schoolgirl

WORLD

Venezuelan Bolivarian Militia members hold a life-size image of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez. Rodrigo Abd Rodrigo Abd

#THE ART OF THE DEAL: President Donald Trump announced that a deal has been reached to end a partial government shutdown that has been ongoing since December.

#EMILIANO SALA: British investigators are probing the licence held by the pilot of the plane carrying footballer Emiliano Sala that went missing this week.

#MUELLER TIME: An adviser to Donald Trump Roger Stone was arrested as part of the Mueller investigation into collusion between the president’s campaign and Russia.

PARTING SHOT

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What you knew: Roger Stone, a longtime advisor to Donald Trump, was arrested today on charges relating to the Mueller investigation into possible collusion between the president’s election campaign and Russia.

What you didn’t know: Stone launched his career as a campaign aide to former US president Richard Nixon, who resigned in the wake of the infamous Watergate cover-up. Stone is obviously quite taken with him, because he got Nixon’s head tattooed to his back.