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

IRELAND

One year on... Fair City's Maclean Burke as Garth Brooks outside the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin today to publicise the new play 'Are You There Garth? It's Me Margaret'. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• A month’s mind vigil for the students killed in the Berkeley tragedy was held in California. 
• Police in Belfast arrested two teenage girls as part of an investigation into a large-scale pre-arranged fight.
• Roy Keane claimed Paddy Power breached his constitutional rights with a ‘crude and vulgar’ ad.
• Bray Main Street reopened after a car was flipped onto its roof.
• The HSE confirmed another suspension at the Áras Attracta home. 
• A Fianna Fáíl senator called for a cull of seagulls.
• Gardaí released their annual report. 
• A man who won €350,000 on the lottery is planning a trip to see where Scania trucks are made, he said.

WORLD

Dead bodies covered by newspapers at the site of the explosion. Associated Press Associated Press

#TURKEY: Initial investigations have indicated Islamic State militants were responsible for a suicide bomb which killed 30 people in Turkey (above).

#AUSTRALIA: The man who was convicted of the manslaughter of Irishman Thomas Keaney in a one-punch attack was sentenced to nine years in prison today.

#LA: Demi Moore has said she is stunned and saddened by the death of a 21-year-old man in the backyard pool of her Los Angeles home.

INNOVATION

• Hackers are threatening to release the “secret sexual fantasies” of Ashley Madison customers, after the cheating website was hacked. [Buzzfeed Tech]
• The US National Air and Space Museum has launched a crowdfunding campaign to conserve the spacesuit Neil Armstrong wore on the moon.

PARTING SHOT

A Fifa news conference had to be suspended today after president Sepp Blatter was pelted with fake cash. Comedian Lee Nelson invaded the stage and interrupted the conference before showering Blatter in notes.
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