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

IRELAND

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• Strike action that caused disruption across the country’s postal system has been called off.
• Enda Kenny is refusing to rule out an early election, fuelling more talk that the country will be going to the polls as soon as next month.
• A man who sexually assaulted a woman he met at a party faces a maximum of ten years in prison when he is sentenced next month. 
• A legal firm has been ordered to pay €80,000 to a former employee after losing a challenge asking a judge to overturn the compensation award to one of its former solicitors. 
• The Commercial Court has ruled that ESB was 60% liable for flood damage to University College Cork UCC following extensive flooding in Cork City in November 2009.
• Another train strike is on the cards as Irish Rail unions vote for industrial action.
• UTV Ireland Live presenter Chris Donoghue is set to quit his role as co-anchor of the programme.
• RTÉ has removed comments Patrick Guinness made about young female refugees while being interviewed by Ryan Tubridy this morning. 
• Have you seen Ireland’s swanky new passport card? It’s now open for online applications at a cost of €35.

INTERNATIONAL

#PARIS: Workers at Air France have angrily pulled the shirts from the backs of the airline’s executives at the company’s headquarters.

#US EAST COAST: Four people died after record rainfall left large areas of the US southeast under water over the weekend as roads were closed and residents were warned to stay indoors.

#AFGHANISTAN: The US is struggling to explain how it bombed an MSF hospital and killed 22 people.

INNOVATION

• Microsoft has a unique idea to help make laptop batteries last much longer.
• Google has dropped its famous ‘Don’t be evil’ motto for a less catchy version.

PARTING SHOT 

Monday is almost over.

Now it’s time to relax with sounds and images from Dingle Sheep Market.

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