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

IRELAND

Ibrahim Halawa's sister Fatima on Grafton Street in Dublin today to highlight the Dubliner's 1,000th day in prison in Egypt. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• A baby found dead in Bray last week was laid to rest
• Alan Kelly confirmed he would put his name forward to lead Labour
• A man was arrested over the Regency shooting
• Junior minister Finian McGrath gave in to pressure to pay his water bill
• The Luas strike rumbled on (and on)
• Two men were killed in road crashes in Kilkenny and Tipperary
• Alan Shatter said he was spat at following his resignation
• Ireland needs to change its abortion laws, the UN said
• No-fly zones were announced ahead of Star Wars filming
• The temperatures soared (hooray!)
• And… want to see a sculpture of Enda Kenny’s head made from toilet roll? 

WORLD

A Naga Sadhu, or naked Hindu holy man, sits inside his tent during the month long Kumbh festival at Ujjain in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Rajanish Kakade Rajanish Kakade

#REFUGEE CRISIS: Irish charity Goal has fired some of its staff members as a result of an ongoing investigation into its financial dealings in Turkey and Syria.

#US ELECTIONS: Donald Trump denied that he had repeatedly posed as his own publicist, after the Washington Post reported that he had done so for decades to push his own agenda.

#RIP: And the world’s oldest person, Susannah Mushatt Jones, died aged 116.

INNOVATION

• Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has accused Russia of being behind a series of cyber attacks on its state computer systems. [BBC]
• And this is fascinating – turns out that the best thing to do after swallowing a foreign object might be… to swallow another foreign object. 

PARTING SHOT

How would you fancy hopping on to one of these for your morning commute?

It’s called the Hyperloop, and it could be the future of public transport. It involves pods travelling along pressurised tubes at supersonic speeds.

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