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

IRELAND

Kerry Comic Con is coming to the INEC, Killarney this weekend. Valerie O’Sullivan Valerie O’Sullivan

• A Dublin-born woman is believed to be among the five dead following a helicopter crash in Wales.
• Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan appeared before the Oireachtas Justice Committee.
• The Disclosures Tribunal into alleged smear campaigns against garda whistleblowers began in Dublin.
• Ian Bailey was arrested on foot of a European Arrest Warrant.
• The funeral of Rescue 116 crash victim Captain Mark Duffy took place in Co Louth.
• The Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis’ plan to visit Ireland.
• Danielle McLaughlin, the Irishwoman murdered in India earlier this month, was laid to rest in Buncrana.
• The DPP has expressed concern about the upcoming trial of water protesters for the alleged false imprisonment of Joan Burton.
• A rapist who poses ‘an indefinite danger to women’ was jailed for 18 months after a sexual assault in the Dart.
• Gardaí have appealed for assistance after a man’s body was found on Bray beach.
• A woman who banged her knee sitting down at restaurant table was awarded damages of €20,000.

WORLD

Musicians from Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge perform a recently rediscovered 500-year-old Easter carol at Battle Abbey in East Sussex. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#CYCLONE DEBBIE: Torrential rain is hampering relief efforts after a powerful cyclone wreaked havoc in northeast Australia.

#NORTH KOREA: The body of Kim Jong-Nam will be sent to North Korea and nine Malaysians in Pyongyang will be allowed to leave.

#TRUMP BLOW: The US federal judge who halted President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban has extended the block.

PARTING SHOT

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An Post, have released a series of Irish stamps commemorating emoji. The stamps were designed by The Stone Twins, two Irish brothers now based in Amsterdam.