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

IRELAND

Hula Hooper Connie Walton at Castlepalooza, Tullamore Ruth Medjber Ruth Medjber

• The Taoiseach has defended a separate office being set up to look after his own PR. Those in opposition have dubbed the new communications unit the Taoiseach’s own “spin machine”.
• Speaking in Belfast today, Varadkar has said it is “only a matter of time” before Northern Ireland legalises same-sex marriage.
• A former member of An Garda Síochána is being investigated for allegedly leaking information to criminals, TheJournal.ie has learned.
• A man in his 40s was hospitalised after a group of youths left him with facial stab wounds last night.
• A nursing home has been told to change a bedroom that had four residents in it, despite being told in 2015 it could only hold three.
• A man in his 30s has died after his motorbike crashed with a car in Leitrim this morning.
• A gorse fire was started by a campfire in Dún Laoghaire last night.
• Gardaí are appealing for the public’s help in tracing the whereabouts of Shane Rock.

INTERNATIONAL 

Man identified as Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen with British residency, who has been arrested in the alleged kidnapping of a young British model. Ufficio stampa Polizia di Stato Ufficio stampa Polizia di Stato

#ITALY: A British model was drugged and abducted for a week in Italy last month by a British-based Polish man who allegedly tried to auction her off as a sex slave on the dark web.

#CHICAGO: US authorities have arrested employees of two prestigious universities accused in the stabbing death of a Chicago hairstylist, following a nationwide manhunt.

#CLIMATE CHANGE: The US has announced it will still take part in international climate change negotiations in order to protect its interests, despite its planned withdrawal from the Paris accord on global warming.

PARTING SHOT

We live in an era where you can stream almost any show your heart desires – old, new, homegrown, foreign.

Having hundreds of television shows available at your fingertips means it’s extra frustrating when a show you want to watch isn’t readily available to stream.

Here’s why you can’t stream shows like Reeling in the Years or Love/Hate on RTÉ Player.

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