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

Justice Minister Alan Shatter arriving at Government buildings this morning to brief his Cabinet colleagues on the details of his department’s examination of its correspondence with the garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe. (Image Credit: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

IRELAND

• An ‘experienced criminal lawyer’ is to examine garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe’s dossier of allegations.
• Mick Wallace said an independent inquiry is needed into at least three issues concerning An Garda Síochána.
• Charges against a man suspected of carrying out the 1982 Hyde Park bombing were dropped.
• New figures revealed that religious orders are still millions of euro short on their contribution to an abuse fund.
• Another weather warning was issued.
• A former journalist was charged in connection with an investigation into alleged sexual assault.
• One person was assaulted at Naas Courthouse in Kildare, in an incident reportedly involving gardaí in riot gear.
• The HSE was criticised for sending €100 invoices to the families of road traffic victims.
• Investigators found ‘green and rotting meat‘ at a food plant in Monaghan.
• A Fianna Fáil candidate withdrew from local elections after Micheal Martin’s assistant was added to ticket
• 250 dead frogs were found in Kildare.
• The Editor of the Irish Mirror issued an apology to RTÉ presenter Sharon Ní Bheoláin over the paper’s decision to publish paparazzi-style pictures her.

INTERNATIONAL

Motuba, a Western lowland 29-year-old, 432-pound gorilla eats a tomato as he makes his public debut at a zoo in Pennsylvania, the United States. (Image Credit: Matt Rourke/AP/Press Association Images)

#UKRAINE: The interim president formed a unity government

#VENEZUELA: Students staged another protest rally.

#AFGHANISTAN: The United States warned that it could pull out all of its troop if a security agreement is not signed. [BBC]

#UGANDA: A tabloid published a list of what it called the country’s “200 top” homosexuals.

#UNITED KINGDOM: The Conservative Party rebranded. They now want to known as the ‘Workers’ Party’.

INNOVATION

• Top bitcoin exchange MtGox disappeared amid reports of a theft of the virtual currency worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Facebook pulled the plug on its email service that everyone forgot about.
• Rolls-Royce is designing drone shipping vessels. [Gizmodo]

PARTING SHOT
Photographer Eoin MacDonald-Nethercott caught this stunning 24-hour panorama, taken during the summer months in Antarctica where the sun never sets below the horizon. Find out more about the image on his blog. [European Space Agency]

(Image Credit: ESA/IPEV/PNRA-E. Macdonald-Nethercott)

Originally published 9.00pm

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