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

IRELAND

Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe, launches the Mid-Year Expenditure Report 2017 today. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• The Garda Commissioner has ordered that officers investigate claims by an alleged child sex abuse victim that gardaí ‘shelved’ her case for 11 years.
• Gardaí have renewed their appeal for information regarding the disappearance of Linda Christian. A body has been found in the search for her but it has not been formally identified.
• A number of Irish medical students have been injured in a crash in Malawi.
• A man in his 20s has been charged in relation to the death of Dermot Byrne who died in Swords, north Dublin, on Sunday morning.
• Revenue officers seized €650,000 worth of cocaine and heroin at Dublin Airport.
• A garda superintendent has denied ignoring a letter by a social worker regarding sex abuse allegations against Maurice McCabe in order to “trigger an earthquake in the HSE”.
• The man who was arrested in relation to the alleged sexual assault of a Spanish teenager in Ringsend, Dublin, was out on bail at the time.
• Seagulls have reportedly been attacking people in Dublin city again. We spoke to the experts to find out what makes them so angry.
• Irish researchers said they are hopeful they are edging closer to a treatment for Huntington’s disease.

WORLD

OJ Simpson attends a parole hearing at Lovelock Correctional Centre in Nevada. Jason Bean / PA Images Jason Bean / PA Images / PA Images

#THE JUICE: OJ Simpson found out this evening that he is to be paroled after nine years inside for armed robbery.

#CHESTER BENNINGTON: The lead singer of Linkin Park has been discovered dead at his LA home. He was 41.

#FRANCE: A singer died on stage at a French festival after an apparent electrocution on stage.

PARTING SHOT

By now, we’ve all heard of the term ‘Fake News’ but today there were thousands of people hoping that there could be a sliver of truth in what seemed to be a highly- unlikely news story.

The DailyEdge reports that the City of the Tribes was wrapped up in the rumour that Oscar-winning actor Leonardo Di Caprio was moving to Galway thanks to a story which went viral.

The only problem is that the website in question openly admits that it’s a satirical and fantasy website.

So Di Caprio coming to Galway? In your dreams.

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