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

IRISH

Health Minister James Reilly takes part in a photocall to launch Tobacco Free Ireland, at Croke Park in Dublin. (Niall Carson/PA Wire)

• Gardaí are investigating an alleged sexual assault of a student in the Phoenix Park.
• An Irish woman who was stabbed outside a backpackers’ hostel in Sydney has been released from hospital.
• Consortium Premier Lotteries Ireland was selected as the preferred buyer for the National Lottery Licence.
• Chloe Kinsella, 15, is still missing in Limerick.
• James Reilly wants Ireland to be a no-smoking zone by 2025.
• A young woman was killed in a car crash in Wexford.
• Peter Mathews resigned from Fine Gael.
• A sexual abuse support group said that more than half of people receiving therapy suffered at the hands of a family member.
• Daintree owner tried to explain why he will not sell products for same-sex weddings.
• There was no resolution to the hospital doctors versus HSE dispute.
• 75 new jobs were announced.
• There was a significant heroin seizure in Dublin.
• A British newspaper hailed hurling as a “shining example of sportsmanship”.
• ‘Féinphic’ (or ‘selfie’) has been added to the Irish language dictionary.

INTERNATIONAL

Police converge on the scene of a shooting on Constitution Avenue on the campus of the US Capitol and near the Supreme Court, in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP/Press Association Images)

#USA: A number of people, including a police officer, were injured in a shooting and vehicle crash near the US Capitol.

#ITALY: The death toll in the tragic boat disaster of the island of Lampedusa has risen to 130.

#UK: Amanda Hutton was found guilty of the manslaughter of her four-year-old son whose starved body was found in a mummified state in December 2009.

#UK: The Mail on Sunday apologised to Ed Miliband for sneaking a journalist into a private, family memorial service, a move the newspaper said came from a “terrible lapse in judgement”.

INNOVATION

• Twitter has finally filed its $1 billion IPO.
• The shut down of ‘deep web’ site Silk Road was the talk of the tech world yesterday. Today? We’ve moved on to what will replace it…[The Guardian]
• Are you a Snapchat fan? Now you will be able to take photos and upload them to a feed over a 24-hour period so you can build a ‘story’ or narrative of your day. [Mashable]

(YouTube: Snapchat)

PARTING SHOT

Photographer Conor Ledwith sent this fantastic image to us, with the following information:

“Good afternoon. A follow up from last night’s fantastic Aurora images from Donegal. Here is my little bit of Aurora over Lough Corrib, county Galway. Of course, we will never be able to beat the lads up there in Donegal, but we are offering something a little different down here in the form of a star trail from last night. It is a composite of 50 images and each image is a thirty second exposure.”

First published on 9pm

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