NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen has been appearing before the Banking inquiry today to answer questions about his time as Finance Minister.
- Drinks manufacturer Tullamore Dew is set to cut 50 jobs at its distillery in Clonmel.
- A suicidal woman was repeatedly refused admittance to a Galway hospital’s psychiatric ward.
- A former Catholic archbishop who had taken a defamation case against RTÉ has settled.
- Relatives of those killed in the Stardust nightclub fire held a sit-in at the Department of Justice over the investigation into their relatives’ deaths.
- Irish crooner Val Doonican has died at the age of 88.
- An investigation has been launched after a teacher was spotted correcting a Leaving Cert paper on a train.
- A man is set to take the State to court after armed gardaí raided his flat by mistake.
INTERNATIONAL
#FRANCE: A woman has been jailed for suffocating eight of her children.
#TUNISIA: Eight people have been arrested in Tunisia in connection with last Friday’s terrorist attack.
#UNITED STATES: A woman recently found in California with an acute case of amnesia has been identified.
INNOVATION
Google has apologised after its new photo app put a ‘gorillas’ label on a black couple.
PARTING SHOT
Ever wondered why mosquitoes bite some people and not others? Well Business Insider has tried to find out. [Business Insider]
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