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

IRELAND

Mark Stedman Mark Stedman

• Michaella McCollum Connolly will serve out the remainder of her prison sentence in Northern Ireland. She was arrested this day last year.
• The ESRI says Dublin is facing a significant housing shortage.
• A 19-year-old man was stabbed at Dundrum Shopping Centre last night.
• A man is in hospital with a suspected broken arm after being hit by a Luas.
• Fleadh Cheoil organisers ‘respectfully’ returned Shell funding after a public outcry.
• A man in his 80s was killed in a Donegalroad crash.
• Bruce Springsteen was at the RDS today to see his daughter Jessica compete in the Dublin Horse Show.

INTERNATIONAL

Displaced Palestinian Umm Muhammad Al Attar stands in a classroom of a U.N. school where the family had sought refuge during the war in Gaza City Lefteris Pitarakis / AP/Press Association Images Lefteris Pitarakis / AP/Press Association Images / AP/Press Association Images

#GAZA: A ceasefire entered into its second day with talks now aimed at securing a permanent truce.

#NIGERIA: A second Ebola death has been confirmed in Nigeria. Ireland has pledged €120,000 to help contain the virus.

#UKRAINE: The search has been called off for the remains of the victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster.

#INDIA: Air India was forced to ground one of its planes after a rat infestation.

INNOVATION

• Robots and artificially intelligent devices are set to take over many jobs now done by people. Some tech experts say, “Automation is Voldemort: the terrifying force nobody is willing to name”. [TheJournal.ie]
• This video shows how nuclear weapons are made. Today is the 69th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing that killed 150,000 people. [TheJournal.ie] 

PARTING SHOT 

This map of connections between Twitter accounts shows there is only one major news site that both pro-Israelis and pro-Palestinians read.

Originally posted 9:00pm

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