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

Tandem Master Tony Donnelly and Vogue Williams jump from 13,000 feet at the inaugural Škoda skydive, which donated 5,000 to Dogs Trust Ireland.

IRELAND

• Minister for Sport Shane Ross has announced the terms of the non-statutory inquiry led by Justice Carroll Moran into the Rio Olympics ticket scandal, while the OCI has appointed a firm to secure all its data for the inquiry.
• Bono contacted the Clintons to help him organise a concert link-up with the International Space Station, newly released emails have shown.
• Ireland captain Robbie Keane has announced his retirement from international football.
• Gardaí have caught a learner driver, who had no tax or insurance, doing 159km per hour in Limerick.
• Irish comedian Jarlath Regan has opened up about donating his kidney to his brother.
• The Sydney Rose has said she is disappointed and confused about festival chair Mary Kennedy’s condemnation of her abortion comments.
• Social media use at a priest training college is to be reviewed after allegations of a ‘gay culture’ at Maynooth.
• A plane was forced into an emergency landing at Cork Airport after smoke was reported billowing in the cockpit.
• A 91-year-old man has died following a two-car collision at Dunboyne, Co Meath.

INTERNATIONAL

The Duchess of Cambridge during her visit to Keech Hospice Care in Luton today. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#ITALY: A huge earthquake in Italy has killed at least 120 people.

#TWINS: Conjoined twins born in the middle of the Syrian Civil War have died while awaiting permission to travel.

#PLANET: A planet has been discovered that seems very similar to the life-supporting conditions on Earth.

#MRS JONES: Hackers have posted naked pictures of actor and comedian Leslie Jones to her website.

INNOVATION

• The security measures Ashley Madison took to protect users’ accounts have been described as having “serious shortcomings”.
• Two of Apple’s iPhone range are said to be vulnerable to what is being called ‘touch disease’.

PARTING SHOT

Donald Trump has made much of Hillary Clinton’s links with Clinton Donation donors, but an exposé on the conflict of interest may not be all it’s cracked up to be. [Vox].

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