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

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IRISH

• Channel 4 Dispatches reveals Ryanair pilots are concerned about passenger safety. Ryanair said they’ll sue.
• Nine out of 10 Aer Arann pilots vote to begin strike action next Tuesday.
• Report for Ruairí Quinn on the Leaving Cert Maths paper errors is almost complete.
• Gardaí urge drivers to slow down as road deaths rise.
• Call for six-month ban on ‘contentious’ parades in Northern Ireland.
• Calls for inquiry after company says they delivered alcohol to gardaí while working for Shell in Mayo.
• Mayor of town where Jill Meagher was murdered visits her family in Drogheda.
• Roscommon TD Frank Feighan says his troubled personal finances will not impact his political career.
• Residents of St Clair’s nursing home in Mullingar to have HSE ‘Fair Deal’ funding removed.
• Accenture announces 140 new jobs for Dublin.
• A 21-year-old man killed when car hit tree in Monaghan.
• Two failed robberies, on a cash box in Blanchardstown and bookies in Clonsilla.
• Government denies a plan to cut more than 17 per cent of Coast Guard staff.
• The brightest meteor shower of the year will fall over Ireland tonight.
• IKEA plans to invest in a Leitrim wind farm to power its Irish stores.

INTERNATIONAL

#BOSTON James ‘Whitey’ Bulger has been found guilty of 11 murders.

#INDONESIA Five have died and hundreds more evacuated as Indonesia volcano continues to wreak havoc.

#NETHERLANDS Dutch Prince Johan Friso has died 18 months after an avalanche ski accident.

#HUNGARY A former Nazi concentration camp guard, accused of sending over 15,000 people to their deaths, has died.

#ZIMBABWE Robert Mugabe told those upset by his disputed election win to “go hang”.

INNOVATION

• Researchers are working on a way to tap billions of smartphones to cure diseases while you sleep. [Bloomberg]
• Bad sleeper? Blogger Eric Barker looks at technology that tracks sleep patterns to give you a better sleep. [Barking Up The Wrong Tree]

PARTING SHOT

Lads, look away now. The first European sea sighting of the testicle-eating pacu fish has been reported off the coast of Sweden. Nuts. [DailyEdge.ie]

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