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

IRELAND

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• Two jailed water protesters are reported to be on hunger strike. 
• Meanwhile in Mayo, some protesters gathered outside the Fine Gael conference.
• A new opinion poll shows support for Labour is down but it’s up for Sinn Féin. 
• A woman in her sixties has died following a four-car collision in Wicklow yesterday evening.
• Gardaí are concerned for the welfare of missing man Shane Fitzgerald.
• A man has been charged over the wedding shooting in Fermanagh. 
• Christy Dignam’s bandmates have said that the rumours of his death are “just rumours”.

INTERNATIONAL

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#GATWICK: Appeal continues for three London schoolgirls feared to have fled to Islamic State militants in Syria.

#UK: The Telegraph is getting a LOT of flack over its front page. A journalist at the newspaper retired over the HSBC scandal last week.

#CANADA: An experiment about Islamophobia saw a blindfolded Muslim man asking strangers to hug him on a city street.

INNOVATION

• Meet the 23-year-old guy who makes $500,000 a year from tweeting ‘facts’.
• Ovulating women may buy more things and seek more dating options.

PARTING SHOT

Put down you calculators…a Friends fan has figured out exactly how much money Joey owes Chandler.

All those head shots, bills, acting lessons, rent, and food added up to €105,196 – here’s how it was calculated.

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