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

IRELAND

Rebecca Amet, an immunology student at TCD, pictured with Hacking the Universe, 3D prints of quantum fluctuations and quantum vacuum noise, by Frederik de Wilde from Belgium. 'SECRET: NOTHING TO SEE HERE' asks how do scientists, hackers, spies, journalists, psychologists, criminals, companies and governments approach this new world of secrets? RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• A woman spent the night in an industrial estate because a council credit card was maxed out
• The LÉ Niamh reached Sicily with 367 people saved by the crew
• Gardaí revealed they’re using their new powers
• The PSNI appealed for information on a killing in Lagmore
• Áras Attracta was back in the headlines
• A woman breastfed on TV3
• It was revealed that loads of people went to jail for not paying fines last year
• Gardaí “disrupted” an Eastern European gang who were stealing power lines
• There was (slight) good news on the weather front

INTERNATIONAL

People queue at an entrance to Oxford Circus station, London, as workers try to get home before a strike by Underground workers closes the capital's entire Tube system. PA Images PA Images

#DEAD MAN WALKING: Susan Sarandon is trying to save a man on death row – in real life.

#WEST BANK: A Palestinian motorist rammed his car into pedestrians, wounding three people. It came on the same day four members of a family were killed by an unexploded bomb from last year’s war.

#MINDER: George Cole from hit 1980s show Minder passed away.

#GOIN’ UNDERGROUND: London was hit with a chaotic tube strike.

INNOVATION

• What would you look like if you worked out? Check it for yourself.
• Uber is worth loads, but still losing lots of money.

PARTING SHOT

It is 70 years since the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Here’s how your home town would fare in a blast.

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