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

The National Homeless and Housing Coalition demonstrating outside the Custom House in Dublin this afternoon Sam Boal Sam Boal

IRELAND

• A GSOC investigation is under way after a 20-year-old woman was killed in Co Meath in a car being pursued by gardaí.
• Shots were fired at a young couple walking home in Dublin.
• Hundreds hit the Dublin streets in protest at the homeless crisis.
• Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are now neck and neck in terms of popularity according to a new Red C poll.
• Some unfortunate words regarding the Seanad in 2013 have come back to bite former minister James Reilly.
• Gardaí have appealed for information as to the whereabouts of missing man Gary Flynn.
• Here’s why some people thought the sound was terrible at last night’s Bruce Springsteen concert.
• A man who beat his mother to death has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.
• Someone was caught doing 61 km/h more than the legal speed limit yesterday.
• A prisoner has been refused compassionate bail to go to his son’s First Communion.
• The water supply was disrupted in north Dublin.

WORLD

Officials remove a World War II-era plane out of the Hudson River after it crashed Julio Cortez Julio Cortez

#FRANCE AND GERMANY: Lightning strikes have injured dozens of people, many seriously, in Paris and a small town in western Germany. 

#SAN DIEGO: 35 people were arrested as protests at a Donald Trump rally in California got heated.

#GLEE: Investigators say Glee actor Mark Salling had thousands of child porn images on his laptop.

#NEW YORK: A vintage plane crashed into the Hudson River.

INNOVATION

• Smartphone led to tablet which led to phablet which led to smartwatch which led to… the tablet watch? Looks like it. [Engadget]
• Ever wondered what it’s like to work for Apple? Wonder no more. [Business Insider]

PARTING SHOT

This professional rock-climber scaled an office building using two vacuum cleaners as suction grips. Holy moly.

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