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

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IRELAND

• A strike by Dublin Bus drivers caused travel disruption across the city
• John Halligan is still in government – for now
• The director of a crisis pregnancy clinic stood by a staff member’s controversial claims
• A committee heard motorists are being driven off the roads by insurance costs
• Gardaí are investigating a serious assault on a busy Dublin road
• A teenager required surgery after being stabbed in Waterford
• A man was killed in a road collision in Kerry.
• It was announced 3,000 new gardaí will be recruited over the next four years.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak about school choice at Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy in Cleveland. Evan Vucci / AP Evan Vucci / AP / AP

WORLD

#TEXAS: A teenage girl shot a classmate before taking her own life.

#THE RACE: Trump said Putin is far more of a leader than Barack Obama.

#RACISM: An Air China magazine has been criticised for warning passengers about ‘Indians, Pakistanis and black people’ in London.

#INDIA: A man has been sentenced to death for a fatal acid attack on a woman. [BBC]

INNOVATION

• Apple has some new earbuds they‘re trying to flog – and they’ll set you back €179
• Nasa is set to launch a near-Earth asteroid mission

PARTING SHOT

It was an emotional day for former residents of this block of flats in St Teresa’s Gardens today as they watched it being demolished.

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