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

IRISH

Protesters outside the Dáil today, calling on the government to take the €13 billion in back taxes from Apple. Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

• The Dáil returned to debate the Apple tax deal
• The Taoiseach defended Ireland’s deal with the company
• John Halligan threatened to leave the government over a heart clinic in Waterford
• Hundreds protested a women’s clinic accused of giving inaccurate abortion advice
• Dublin Bus announced buses would stop running at 9pm tonight ahead of a strike
• Bertie Ahern brokered a peace deal for the GAA and a local handball alley
• A former Nama advisor was recorded accepting a £40,000 (about €48,000) cash payment from a Nama borrower
• It emerged that an off-duty Garda was attacked last week

INTERNATIONAL

The 801 foot tall chimney of the former Isle of Grain Power station in Kent is demolished by engineers. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#CALAIS: Britain announced it will build a wall at the Calais migrant camp.

#SYRIA: Warplanes dropped suspected chlorine bombs on a crowded neighbourhood in Aleppo, activists claimed.

#NOTRE DAME: Two men were arrested after gas cylinders were found in a car near Paris’s famous Notre Dame cathedral.

INNOVATION

• Apple has announced a new iPhone.
• Your phone gets better reception in your right hand, apparently.

PARTING SHOT

The words Sensible Soccer will evoke memories for readers a certain age. This Vice article on the game’s version of the World Cup is enough to make you want to dig the Amiga out of the attic.

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