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

A placard commemorating IRA volunteers in Castlederg. (Pic: Julien Behal/PA Wire)

IRISH

• Lucinda Creighton says she’s “not involved” in talks to form a new political party despite reports she is.
• The controversial Republican parade passed off peacefully in Castlederg, Tyrone.
• Michaella McCollum Connolly could be held for up to 15 days before she is charged or released in Peru.
• Every single county in Ireland has seen a rise in the number of long-term unemployed this year.
• The old age pension could be cut to help reduce the budget deficit. [The Sunday Independent]
• Fourteen people were rescued from the sea in four separate incidents at Dublin Bay, Howth and Tramore.
• PSNI are looking for the man who told a woman he’d help her find a taxi and then assaulted her in Belfast.
• The government spent €60.4m on renting prefabs as classrooms over the last three years.
• Motorcyclist, 26, killed in Tyrone crash, while man, 28, in serious condition after Limerick crash.
• A website set up to report racism in Ireland has logged 60 reports in less than a month.
• Louis Walsh talks about life after false sex claims were made against him in The Sun newspaper.

INTERNATIONAL

#SICILY: Six men from Egypt drowned after jumping from boat thinking they were onshore.
#JAMAICA: Sixteen-year-old murdered by a mob at a Jamaican party for being transgender.
#ROMANIA: Six Romanians to go on trial after seven masterpieces were stolen and possibly burnt.

INNOVATION

• Starship Troopers, a 1997 sci-fi film, predicted a lot of today’s technology like video calls and tablets. [Business Insider]
• Scientists have almost found a way to predict our decisions. [Business Insider]

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