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

Bathory Von Hagaard from Wexford, Lesley Jenkins Blairsdale from Lucan and Pete Star from Kildare wait in line in Temple Bar during the audtions for the 2nd series of Vikings which ran on RTE and was filmed in Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• The Taoiseach and Justice Minister apologised to Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe
• The government announced it will allow an independent review of the Department of Justice
• A man was charged with IRA membership in a sitting of the Special Criminal Court
• The HSE apologised for a delay in a cancer diagnosis for a 31-year-old woman who died from the disease [RTÉ]
• A politician told of how he was not allowed canvass asylum seekers
• An Irishman was set to be deported from Dubai for flicking his middle finger
• An off-duty Garda was hailed for foiling a cash-in-transit robbery
• €22 million was announced for 1916 Rising commemorative works
• The Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork called for equal rights for gay couples
• Aer Lingus cabin crew announced they would strike
• An Army bomb squad was called to comb a derelict building after a grenade was found

INTERNATIONAL

Women attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped schoolgirls of the Chibok secondary school, in Abuja, Nigeria AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#NIGERIA: The US said that it had begun flying ‘manned missions’ over Nigeria, as the search for 276 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants continued.

#PISTORIUS: A judge will rule tomorrow if Oscar Pistorius should undergo psychiatric evaluations. The prosecutor in the athlete’s murder trial asked for a month of tests to be carried out.

#TURKEY: At least four people are dead and around 400 reportedly trapped after a coal mine collapsed in Turkey. Five people were rescued.

INNOVATION

• A cheaper Xbox One is on the way. And it doesn’t have a Kinect attached. [TheJournal.ie]
• Apple is getting with the times and allowing split-screen multitasking on the iPad. [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

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