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

IRELAND

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• The funerals of Berkeley victims Niccolai Schuster and Olivia Burke were held today.
• Famous activist Erin Brockovich has offered her help to the families of the students killed in the balcony collapse.
• Fiona Doyle’s mother was arrested in relation to an ongoing investigation into abuse.
• The Killarney music festival has been cancelled just three days before the event.
• A former Archbishop has taken a defamation case against RTÉ over its ‘Mission to Prey’ Prime Time Investigates programme. [RTÉ]
• Graham Dwyer’s ‘girlfriend’ says “I would trust him with my life”.
• There’s *some* good news if you’re trying to buy a house.
• The jury will continue its deliberations tomorrow in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a ten-month-old baby.
• Ten parents PER MINUTE are signing up to free GP care for under 6s.
• Want to see the Northern Lights? Keep your eyes on the sky over the next few nights.

INTERNATIONAL

#NO DEAL: Greece doesn’t want a piece of the troika’s latest offer

#DEATH SENTENCE: Boston bomber, 21 year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has apologised to the victims of the 2013 attack.

#NEW YORK: After 25 years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit, Jonathan Fleming receives millions in compensation.

#CANADA: Helicopter police were caught chatting about oral sex over a megaphone.

INNOVATION

• Here’s how to get your computer to shut up when it starts playing videos you don’t want to watch.
• Want to prevent jet lag? Here’s the simple way to do it.

PARTING SHOT

Have you ever wondered how crisps are made? It involves a drill and a potato…

Here’s how they do it at Tayto park. [DailyEdge]

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