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

L to R. Emily Aherne and Shaun Barrett, both from Finglas and aged 8years, steal the show from older competitors and the Agnes Browne Dance Off, on the last day of the Finglas Festival in Dublin. Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

IRELAND

• A boy was rescued from a sinkhole in Co Kerry
• The Health Minister described the HSE Console audit as “harrowing”
• A man was charged as part of an investigation into organised crime in the south of the country.
• A toddler who fell from a hotel balcony in Co Limerick is in “critical” condition
• Over 39,000 new medical card applications were refused in the last 12 months
• Tallaght psychiatric nurses say they are exhausted and frustrated by staff shortages.
• Parents took part in a march that called for education equality 
• A man was arrested after a woman was threatened with a knife in her home
• John Halligan described why he’s not happy with the whip system
• A man has walked over 1000km around Ireland barefoot

WORLD

Iraqi security forces looking for victims as civilians gather at the site after a car bomb at a commercial area in Karada neighbourhood, Baghdad Khalid Mohammed Khalid Mohammed

#IRAQ Over 119 people were killed as bomb attacks by Islamic State rocked Baghdad.

#NEW YORK Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel has died at the age of 87.

#AUSTRALIA The country is in political limbo over the latest election.

#BRISTOL Two people were charged after a baby boy was shot in the head with an air rifle.

#MEXICO Women in Mexico have suffered horrendous abuse by police, army and navy forces after arrests.

#UK Theresa May vowed to push for an EU trade deal that would limit immigration.

INNOVATION

• Do video ads on mobile games really annoy you? Here’s a way around them. 
• With everything that’s going on in the UK, perhaps it’s no surprise that The Guardian has come up with a list of the 10 greatest video games about political backstabbing and intrigue… [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

Over on DailyEdge.ie, they have a rather stunning list of 10 times Hollywood got Ireland wrong… very wrong.

- Comments have been closed as one of the stories concerns people charged in connection with an offence.

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