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

The Walsh family from Co Kilkenny picking up a cheque today for €500,000 won via a Lotto Plus jackpot Mac Innes Photography Mac Innes Photography

IRELAND

• An investigation has been launched after two babies died at Cavan General Hospital.
• The wife of David Mahon says he is “forgiven but not forgotten” for killing her son.
• A woman is to be charged tomorrow morning in connection with the gangland murder last week of Gareth Hutch.
• Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan says she “was not aware” of a secret meeting between former Commissioner Martin Callinan and the PAC chairman.
• The number of young people with pensions has fallen dramatically since the recession.
• An elderly patient in Meath was forced to wait 35 minutes for an ambulance to arrive from Cavan after he collapsed.
• A renewed appeal has been made for information regarding a man who was bundled into a van in Kerry 25 years ago and never seen again.
• A woman who poured boiling water mixed with sugar over a man’s head has been jailed for three years.
• Gardaí have renewed an appeal for information on a missing man whose car was found abandoned near a Wicklow forest.
• A Galway mussel farmer has been killed in a diving accident while helping a friend.
• This is why councillors don’t think taller buildings will tackle Dublin’s housing crisis.
• There have been calls for a new emergency health fund to pay for expensive cancer drugs.
• The Taoiseach reckons that border controls could return if Britain leaves the EU.
• Amazon is to hire 500 more people in Ireland.

WORLD

Children leaving flowers at the Gorilla World exhibit at Cincinatti Zoo where Harambe the male gorilla was shot and killed on Saturday by zoo officials after a four-year-old boy fell into his enclosure John Minchillo John Minchillo

#MEXICO: A Mexican footballer has been rescued after being kidnapped by armed men yesterday.

#AUSTRALIA: A woman is feared dead after being dragged underwater by a crocodile on a beach.

#JAPAN: A seven-year-old boy is missing after his parents left him in a bear-inhabited forest as punishment.

#HARAMBE: There have been calls for the parents of a four-year-old boy who fell into the gorilla enclosure at an American zoo to be prosecuted.

INNOVATION

• This Pong table is aiming to bring the classic arcade game into the real world.
• Here’s how a 16-year-old boy built his dream video game company with no money. [Business Insider]

PARTING SHOT

Meet Stepan, a wild bear that was adopted by a Russian family after his mother died. He’s now 23 and looks like the best house-pet ever. Talk about a burglar-deterrent.

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