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

IRELAND

One of the trucks and a car, involved in the crash on the M50 this morning, being removed. Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• A crash on the M50 left a woman seriously injured and caused traffic chaos
• Apple announced 1,000 jobs for Cork
• A former minister was reportedly being investigated by An Garda Síochána over allegations he sexually abused children in the 1990s.
• Mountjoy Prison went into lockdown over a cannabis grinder
• David Drumm applied for bail in the US
• Bank of Ireland said footage shown on the BBC of an alleged fraud was “highly edited”
• Winds battered Ireland and will continue to do so
• A TD claimed an NCT tester refused to examine a car that had dog hairs in it
• A man who stole €1.7 million from a Credit Union was jailed
• A man pleaded guilty to murdering a 63-year-old man
• A woman will be sentenced next year for assaulting Áras Attracta residents (RTÉ)

INTERNATIONAL

Joseph McKeehen poses for photographers with his $7.6 million prize after winning the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#BECKY WATTS: The step-brother of Becky Watts, the British teenager brutally murdered in a sexually motivated attack was found guilty of her murder.

#YORKSHIRE: 27 students from the one school took ill at the one time and were taken to hospital.

#PORTUGAL: A left-wing alliance toppled the government in a dramatic parliamentary vote that sent the country into limbo.

INNOVATION

• Saving Google Map locations offline is handy. Here’s how to do it. 
• A Microsoft robotic “finger” automates basically everything in your house. [Geek]

PARTING SHOT

Fourth class students from Scoil Aonghusa in Tallaght made a rocket and “launched it into space”. The video is incredibly cool. It’s all part of the ReelLIFE SCIENCE schools video competition.

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