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

Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Cork players continued to celebrate winning the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie final at Croke Park yesterday with a visit to Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin. Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRISH

• Dublin City Council is looking at whether to house homeless people in prefabs.
• A man was arrested after an alleged sexual assault in Waterford city centre.
• Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin accused the Government of ‘cooking the books’ on the Health budget.
• Irish peacekeepers are getting ready to leave Golan Heights - new troops are on the way to replace them.
• Judge Barry White said he doesn’t believe judges need training in rape cases.
• An Orange Hall in Donegal was completely destroyed by an arson attack.
• Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe met with senior gardaí today over new penalty points claims.
• Senator Ned O’Sullivan is stepping up his campaign against… seagulls
• 131 children in State care went missing in the first six months of 2014.
• A man in his 70s was killed after a wall collapsed on him in Bandon.
• The funeral of Ian Paisley took place today, and Stormont also paid tribute to him.
• A small number of gardaí are being investigated for behaviour on their personal social media accounts.

INTERNATIONAL

Michael Probst German Kreshnik B. , left, waits for the beginning of his trial at a higher regional court in Frankfurt, Germany Michael Probst

#GERMANY An alleged Islamic State jihadist was put on trial.

#PALESTINE Two Palestinian migrants were rescued but 500 people are feared dead after a boat sank in the Mediterranean

#THAILAND Two British tourists were murdered on a Thai island after a beach party.

#PARIS Representatives of 20 nations gathered in Paris to discuss how to defeat Islamic State.

INNOVATION

• Facebook has begun muscling in on YouTube’s turf, by trying to tempt its top talent over to its video services. [TheJournal.ie]

Xbox Xbox

• Microsoft bought Mojang – which developed the game Minecraft – for a hefty $2.5bn. But what IS Minecraft? The Guardian has a handy explainer. [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

This GIF of Mother Jones (an Irish woman and labour organiser) is just one of the spooky and quite humorous images created by Kevin Weir, using photos from the Library of Congress archives. [Huffington Post]

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