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

An Irish army private greeting his family at Dublin Airport after returning from Lebanon. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• There were calls for the Garda Commissioner to resign.
• A man in his 20s was charged over the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel. 
• Fianna Fáil revealed its (relatively) new front bench.
• The pay-by-weight-charges for green bins were scrapped.
• GSOC found details of Clare Daly’s request were leaked by gardaí.
• Developers these days need more than €330,000 to build a single house in Dublin.
• A cancer patient has been waiting in a hotel since Monday for hospital treatment.

WORLD

A survivor carries her dog as she walks on the mud after a landslide in Elangipitiya village in Aranayaka about 72 kilometers (45 miles) north east of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Eranga Jayawardena Eranga Jayawardena

#NIGERIA: One of the 219 girls abducted by Boko Haram has been found.

#POST COLD WAR: The former Nato general warned the West is risking a nuclear war with Russia.

#BREXIT: A watchdog ruled The Sun’s front page headline about the Queen backing Brexit was “misleading”.

INNOVATION

• Microsoft hinted it will be ending Lumia phones.
• Meanwhile Nokia is planning a comeback.

PARTING SHOT

A new trial conducted at the Imperial College London has shown that magic mushrooms could be used to treat depression:
https://www.facebook.com/thejournal.ie/videos/1126524674034622/

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