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

[Image: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland]

IRELAND

• A Church report found there had been just 12 convictions following 870 abuse allegations against Christian Brothers
• Cardinal Brady said he was ‘truly sorry’ to abuse survivors
• There was a shooting incident at a Glasnevin hotel
• A portrait of a former Cork Lord Mayor who’s been convicted of sexual assault was removed from City Hall
• It was confirmed the Department of Health will need another €200 million
• Gardaí appealed for help tracing a missing teen
• Brendan Howlin said he expected the PAC would get to the bottom of the CRC scandal
• A woman stabbed in Dublin yesterday was discharged from hospital
• TD Peadar Toibín revealed he had been approached by Fianna Fáil
• Politicians paid their tributes to Nelson Mandela in the Dáil
• A fuel laundering plant was discovered in Meath
• And it looks like Eamon Gilmore has become the first Government minister to take a ‘selfie’

WORLD

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and former Irish President Mary Robinson arrive at the  FNB Stadium in Soweto [Image: Ben Curtis/AP/Press Association Images]

INTERNATIONAL

#SOUTH AFRICA: “He was not a bust made of marble. He was a man made of flesh and blood”: The world paid tribute at the State Memorial Service for Nelson Mandela

#US-CUBA: Barack Obama and Raul Castro engaged in a historic handshake

#MALI: French troops killed 19 Islamist militants as violence escalated in northern Mali

INNOVATION

• Ever wondered which Irish county has the largest number of Facebook users, by percentage? Well, now we know…
• Demonstrators in San Francisco blocked a Google staff shuttle today as part of a protest over use of city bus stops [Huffington Post]

PARTING SHOT

Perhaps an unfortunate seating position for George W. Bush…

[Image: Matt Dunham/AP/Press Association Images]

First posted at 9.03pm

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