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

Chelsea Garciac elebrating with her baby girl who she gave birth to during her exams for her final medicine results. 230 medical students from RCSI received their results today.

IRISH

• The bus strike has been called off after an early morning breakthrough.
• Leo Varadkar said he’s ashamed at the way patients in Portlaoise were treated.
• There was more Siteserv talk and TDs in the Public Accounts Committee are not happy at all.
• The former Bank of Ireland governor said Brian Cowen was the one who suddenly dropped the bank guarantee news.
• Graham Dwyer has been moved because of a threat from another prisoner.
• A new group, made up of teachers, said they worry a Yes vote will mean they have to teach 4-year-olds about the word ‘gay’.
• Enda Kenny featured in a new referendum video promoting a Yes vote.
• An 18-year-old from Balbriggan is missing.
• One of the hottest startups in the world has landed in Dublin, with 100 new jobs.
• Bomb disposal teams dealt with four devices just days before Prince Charles arrives.

WORLD

Displaced boys who fled their home after a Saudi-led airstrike destroyed their houses. Hani Mohammed / AP/PA Hani Mohammed / AP/PA / AP/PA

#HILLSBOROUGH: Police released images of witnesses they believe could help in their investigation into the disaster.

#WORRYING TREND: Some 700 British people have travelled to Syria – most of them going to join ISIS.

#BOSTON: Jurors resumed deliberations on the Boston bomber. [CNN]

#GREECE: Police and the mother of missing toddler Ben Needham will appeal to the Greek public for information about his disappearance more than 20 years ago.

#SLIP UP: A BBC reporter accidentally called Nigel Farage a c**t live on air.

INNOVATION

• This watery graveyard is the resting place for 161 sunken spaceships. [Gizmodo]
• Frustrated with buffering when you try to stream videos? These five hacks will help. [Mashable]
• Assassin’s Creed finally added more female characters. [Business Insider]

PARTING SHOT

If you’ve ever smoked flavoured tobacco through a hookah, you may want to read this. Vice explores theories that ‘hookah sickness‘ is actually just carbon monoxide poisoning.

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