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

IRELAND 

Michale D Higgins meeting GAA playing students in Seattle today Shane O'Neill / Fennell Photograph Shane O'Neill / Fennell Photograph / Fennell Photograph

• The INMO has called for the Emergency Department in Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital to go off call due to overcrowding. 
• Oberstown Children Detention Campus has been criticised for placing children in single separation too frequently. 
• The tax rate on oil and gas fields is set to be hiked by 55% under a surprise plan omitted from last month’s Budget.
• Enda Kenny has said that there was the possibility of the Army being sent out to banks and cash machines. 
• Further funerals of the victims of the Carrickmines fire took place today. 
• Applause broke out in the Seanad this afternoon after the bill giving effect to May’s same-sex marriage referendum was passed. 
• A man has been charged after robbing a business in Artane with a screwdriver yesterday.
• A train strike looks set hit tomorrow as Irish Rail and the unions involved fail to come to an agreement. 

INTERNATIONAL 

AP Photo / Ariana Cubillo AP Photo / Ariana Cubillo / Ariana Cubillo

A contestant in the Miss Gay Venezuela beauty pageant earlier today 

#RUSSIA: An emoji may have caused a falling out between Russia and Australia (no, really). 

#GERMANY: Far right extremists in the country have been stopped from setting migrant shelters on fire. 

INNOVATION 

• YouTube’s new Red service has run into difficulties due to pornography sites potentially piggy-backing on its name. 
• Airbnb has apologised to San Francisco residents after a series of advertisements focusing on hotel tax. [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

While the plight of those fleeing Syria has been well documented, that struggle is even more difficult for members of the LGBT community. [Buzzfeed]

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