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

IRELAND

Former Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh and girlfriend Shauna Keogh arrive for the Irish Film and Television awards this evening in Dublin RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• Dublin Bus drivers have accepted a new pay deal
• Shots were fired and acid thrown at a pregnant woman in Dublin
• A High Court judge is to preside over an inquiry into allegations of wrongdoing concerning protected disclosures by Garda whistleblowers
• Actor Michael Fassbender was presented with Killarney’s highest honour
• Another Irish actor, Pierce Brosnan, is at the centre of a storm in India for advertising a breath freshener that leaves your mouth red
• Fianna Fáil says it does not support delaying the rise in the State pension
• A man accused of raping his friend says he may have had sex with her whilst asleep
• The Luas green line will be down for the rest of today
• A man, his wife and brother-in-law were sentenced to time in jail for their involvement in a human trafficking operation
• Raiders armed with a knife and hammer stole cash from a Tesco in Co Kildare
• The number of young Irish girls getting the HPV vaccine has dropped significantly
• A new poll has shown that the vast majority of Irish people want the Eighth Amendment repealed
• Irish nurses explained why they’ve ‘had enough’

WORLD

Megyn Kelly / Twitter Megyn Kelly / Twitter / Twitter

#UKIP: The EU has launched a probe after a clash between two MEPs left one of them in hospital

#FLASH CRASH: The pound sterling plunged 6% in 10 minutes

#US: Two Fox News presenters have ended their fight over Donald Trump and put it down to ‘being Irish’

#TEXAS: A 10-year-old boy with special needs was been set on fire by another child

#BREXIT: Non-British academics have been banned from giving the UK government advice on Britain’s leaving the EU

#MATTHEW: Ireland is to provide humanitarian aid after the hurricane killed 300 people in Haiti

INNOVATION

• Snapchat has a $25 billion public offering in the pipeline [via Fora.ie]
• The last instance didn’t exactly go well, and now the FBI wants to hack another iPhone after a series of stabbings in Minnesota [Engadget]

PARTING SHOT

Fox News has landed itself in trouble for a, well, stereotyped to put it lightly piece on Chinese-American relations in which its reporter made his way through Chinatown in New York. The Daily Show’s Ronny Chieng was less than impressed.

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