NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
Arts Project Co-ordinator at The LAB Gallery Denise Reddy inspects ‘Patent No. 936104′ during Supernature, an exhibition of sculptural and film work by Linda Shevlin. [Brian Lawless/PA Wire/Press Association Images].
IRELAND
- A woman in her 60s died in a three-vehicle crash.
- Two people were hospitalised after a tent fire at EP.
- Unions and Irish Rail attended LRC talks.
- Enda Kenny said Phil Hogan should get jobs-focused EU role.
- Gardaí staged a cannabis seizure in Tallaght.
- There was a fire at a derelict nursing home.
- After protests, extra services were put in place at Direct Provision centres.
- Two US fighter jets flew over Dublin — and it was VERY LOUD.
- And a parachutist, aiming for Croke Park, missed.
WORLD
#GOLAN HEIGHTS: Irish troops (above) staged a daring rescue operation to evacuate UN personnel from an area where heavy fighting was taking place.
#NEW BOSSES: EU leaders selected a Pole and an Italian to fill two of the Union’s top jobs at a summit in Brussels.
#MISSING BOY: Police hunting for a 5-year-old boy taken from hospital issued a Europe-wide arrest warrant for his parents.
INNOVATION
- Everything you always wanted to know about Hyperlapsing, and more. Check out our apps of the week.
- And apparently Facebook is testing a new feature that will let people search through your old posts by keyword. Yikes. [Huffington Post]
PARTING SHOT
Seamus Heaney left us exactly a year ago today.
Two friends, Cian Vaughan and Myles Shelly, sent us this video tribute today — and it’s lovely. Essentially a short companion piece to Heaney’s ‘Postscript’, it was filmed around north Co Clare, where the poem is set.
Cian Vaughan / Vimeo
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