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

[Niall Carson/PA]

IRELAND

• Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan resigned
• Alan Shatter paid tribute to his service
• A full inquiry was launched into taped calls at garda stations
• …but it’s not the first time such practices have been noted
• The Justice Dept was informed of the issue 2 weeks ago
• Tributes were paid, after TD Nicky McFadden died aged 51
• A teenager appeared in court over a shooting
• Dublin Bus investigated a crack-cocaine video
• There were renewed appeals for a missing mother
• Aldi withdrew some sausage rolls
• Estate agents reported a ‘mini-boom’ outside Dublin
• And the old Anglo HQ is now almost a Starbucks

Ukrainian boys play with a toy gun in Simferopol, Crimea [Pavel Golovkin/AP/PA Images]

#UKRAINE: A Ukrainian far-right leader was killed after a gun battle with police.

#MH370: The relatives of Flight MH370‘s passengers were involved in scuffles with security staff outside Malaysia’s embassy in Beijing.

#EBOLA: Irish aid workers warned the Ebola virus had now spread to Liberia

#PUT DOWN: The Danish zoo that killed a giraffe last month has now killed four healthy lions.

INNOVATION

• Cyber fugitive Kim Dotcom is planning a €130m NZ stock exchange listing [Guardian]
• Those ‘no make-up’ selfie donations have now hit the €1m mark in Ireland

PARTING SHOT

US artist and photographer Michael Paul Smith has dedicated days of his life to photographing one special small town…

But all is not as it seems…

[Images: Michael Paul Smith]

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