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

IRELAND

Kirsten McDonagh from Westport, Co Mayo washes Carra-Canada-River ahead of the start of the Dublin Horse Show Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Legal teams made their final arguments in the Jason Corbett murder trial.
• Two people arrested in Dublin last night were allegedly stopped on their way to kill a former associate.
• The man charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of 25-year-old Karl Haugh told gardaí when charged that “nobody was meant to die”.
• Gardaí are investigating the alleged assault of a girl at a teenage disco in Carrick-on-Shannon.
• A report said that Ireland has emerged from the ‘lost decade’ that followed the property crash.
• A woman who had details of her protected disclosure of familial abuse lost by the HSE/Tusla for over three years has spoken about her story.
• A man is being detained under terrorism legislation following searches relating to fake documents in Dublin.
• A pipe bomb landed close to a sleeping woman after it was thrown through the bedroom window of a house in Strabane.
• Gardaí are warning about the potential for rental scams as the busy period for student rental approaches.

WORLD

President Donald Trump talks about North Korea during a briefing at a New Jersey golf club. Evan Vucci / PA Images Evan Vucci / PA Images / PA Images

#TENSIONS: President Donald Trump says North Korea “had best not make any more threats to the United States” or “they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”

#HBO HACK: A group of hackers has demanded a multi-million dollar ransom from HBO to prevent the release of television series and other sensitive files.

#MANCHESTER: A man has been found guilty of trying to board a Ryanair flight to Italy with a viable pipe bomb in his hand luggage.

#MEMO: Google has fired the author of an internal memo defending the gender-gap in Silicon Valley tech jobs as a matter of biology.

PARTING SHOT

The 2017 Women’s Rugby World Cup kicks-off in Dublin tomorrow. The42.ie has been previewing the event, including this interview with Ireland international Kim Flood.