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

IRISH

Jobs Minister Mary Mitchell O'Connor addressing the media this morning regarding pending job losses at Hewlett Packard in Co Kildare Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has strongly refuted allegations made under Dáil privilege by Labour leader Brendan Howlin regarding her treatment of Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe.
• Hewlett Packard confirmed it is to cut up to 500 jobs at its Leixlip plant.
• Three Irish people have died in Britain following a house fire in Essex.
• FactCheck: Is Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald right that there are fewer people on hospital trolleys this year?
• A second investigation has gotten underway into an alleged mass grave at a mother and baby home in Tuam
• A candidate for the vacant OCI presidency claims that “five or six” sports federations have colluded ahead of the vote.
• Drink drivers are to get an automatic ban from the roads rather than penalty points.
• Michael D Higgins is to be awarded Peru’s highest honour.
• A dog walker dodged a €4,000 fouling fine by arguing the area was scattered with drug-filled syringes.

WORLD

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, pictured in June 2011 PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#RIP: British socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson has died aged 45.

#TRAVEL BAN: The vast majority of Muslims would not be affected by Donald Trump’s travel ban, US government lawyers have argued.

#BANGLADESH: A Buddhist monk has been caught hiding nearly five million methamphetamine pills in his monastery.

#ROLF HARRIS: The disgraced TV star has been cleared of further sex offences.

PARTING SHOT

The BBC had a little fun on its own site at Donald Trump’s expense over the US president’s allegations that terror attacks around the world are going unreported:

Paul Singh / Twitter Paul Singh / Twitter / Twitter

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