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

Elaine Butler Elaine Butler

IRELAND

• Jean Claude Trichet denied telling Brian Lenihan to ‘save your banks at all costs’
• Hundreds of family cases were left languishing in the Child and Family Agency office 
• A major review of the work of locums in three hospitals took place after a person’s diagnosis was missed
• Central Bank Governor Patrick Honohan is leaving his job a year early
• The JNLRs are out, and Anton Savage did pretty well 
• The Belfast Telegraph came under fire for an article about female political candidates
• The number of people sleeping rough in Dublin has decreased
• A former BOI boss said the night of the bank guarantee was the worst day of his life
• Preparing for the bus strike tomorrow? Here’s all you need to know
• A three-foot rat was found swimming in a Tipperary river 

INTERNATIONAL

Krishna Devi Khadka is carried on a stretcher after being rescued from a building that collapsed in Saturday'’s earthquake in Kathmandu Bikram Rai Bikram Rai

#AMERICA Time Magazine published a powerful front cover in the wake of the Baltimore riots 

#NEPAL A teenager was pulled alive from rubble five days after the earthquake

#INDONESIA An Irish priest said one of the Bali Nine who was executed ‘had no idea he was on death row’

INNOVATION

• Want to reduce your phone bill? There’s an app for that. [TheJournal.ie]
• Ever thought of turning off technology? Jemima Kiss argues it’s not about being a digital hermit, it’s about mental wellbeing. [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

Actor Dennis Hopper took some great photos on cameras he picked up at drugstores in the US. Here’s a look at them. [New York Times]

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