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

IRELAND

Alison Curtis and her daughter Joan Curtis-Hegarty (5) launching Aldi's Give a Gift campaign in aid of Saint Vincent De Paul. /Photocall Ireland /Photocall Ireland

• The National Maternity Hospital is to be moved from Holles Street to St Vincent’s hospital.
• Garda unions have denied that potential strikes amounted to ‘mutiny’.
• A jury was discharged from a murder trial after they spot 29 second gap in crucial CCTV evidence.
• RTÉ staff say the decision to cut children’s programme making was a ‘bolt from the blue’
• There is to be no change to the Roscommon/Westmeath border.
•  A woman who won €40,000 in damages after a fall on the Wicklow Way has faced questions over her version of events.
• The Dáil was suspended this afternoon in an argument over the water committee.
• A mother has told an Oireachtas committee about how cannabis-based treatments have dramatically helped her daughter’s epilepsy.
• A taxi driver who harassed his ex-girlfriend has been ordered to leave the country.

WORLD

Prosecutors in Argentina say three elephants, including Mara (pictured), are entitled to some legal rights enjoyed by humans. Natacha Pisarenko / PA Images Natacha Pisarenko / PA Images / PA Images

#IRAQ: A suicide attack claimed by the so-called Islamic State has killed at least 70 people who were returning from a pilgrimage.

#SWING STATE: Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has raised the necessary $1.1 million to request a vote recount in Wisconsin.

#MANCHESTER: A premature baby was left to die alone in a sluice room, an internal hospital report has found in northern England.

INNOVATION

• The UK is planning a school for teenage code breakers to open in Bletchley Park. The site where WW2 experts broke Nazi messages. (Guardian)
• A new super high-definition 9K virtual reality rig is claiming to be the next generation of gaming. (Techcrunch)

PARTING SHOT

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Quite the parting shot, indeed. This 180m high basketball shot has broken the world record to be the highest recorded basket ever.

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