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

IRELAND

Mayor of Dublin Christy Burke at Youth Work Ireland's 'Integration, is it working for young people' conference. Marc O'Sullivan Marc O'Sullivan

• The judge in Graham Dwyer’s murder trial gave directions to the jury. Telling them to leave “sentiment and emotion” aside.
• The HSE had tried to block the publication of a report into a hospital where five babies died. 
• An Irish man is being held over the murder of a woman in the US.
• Residents of a Dublin city squatted property look set to remain there after a day-long standoff in Grangegorman.
• An off-duty garda was arrested for suspected drink-driving after crashing into a parked squad car.
• The government says it is preparing legislation to tackle the non-payment of water charges.
• Two people died on the roads in the past 24 hours. One man in Cork and another in Meath.
• A woman was dragged out of her car by two men wearing balaclavas in Belfast.
• A human rights activist pulled out of TCD talk on ‘Rise of Islamism’.
• Castlebar court was shut down twice as Land League activists protested repossessions.

INTERNATIONAL

A painting onboard the US aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, currently at anchor off the UK's south coast. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#CRUZ CONTROL: Republican Senator Ted Cruz became the first person from either of the US’s major parties to announce a bid for the White House.

#CLAUDIA LAWRENCE: A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Yorkshire woman in 2009.

#RUN THIS TOWN: Barbados has announced its intention to remove The Queen as its head of state.

#LUCHA LIBRE: A Mexican wrestler died while performing in the ring.

#AMANDA KNOX: An Italian court is to review Amanda Knox’s conviction for killing Meridith Kercher.

INNOVATION

• Jar’Edo Wens, Wikipedia’s longest-lived hoax has finally been outed.
  
• Taylor Swift bought the domain names for both TaylorSwift.porn and TaylorSwift.adult.

PARTING SHOT

Pretty Woman was released 25 years ago today. Vanity Fair talks to one of its screenwriters about how a ‘gritty screenplay got turned into a fairy tale’.