Updated at 11.16pm

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

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter apologised today. (PA Image)

IRELAND

Alan Shatter said he didn’t know about the garda recordings until yesterday.
He also apologised to garda whistleblowers. Confused? Here’s a roundup of the GardaGate controversy from today and what we learned.
David Mahon appeared in court charged with the murder of his stepson.
Teachers voted for strike action against changes to the Junior Cert.
A well-known criminal staggered into a garda station tonight after being shot.
RTÉ bosses said that fighting Pantigate action would have been ‘foolhardy’.
Have a neck tattoo? Then you can’t be in the Defence Forces.
The President of Ireland is going to Windsor and Westminster and he’s well able to work an ATM.

A NASA satellite captured a photo from space of the Washington mudslide. (Pic: NASA)

WORLD

#MALAYSIAN AIRLINES: A French satellite spotted 122 new objects in the Indian Ocean.

#TURKEY: The ban on Twitter was lifted.

#UK: Max Clifford’s penis was measured during a sexual assault trial.

#CHICAGO: The driver of a Chicago commuter train that crashed yesterday admitted she “dozed off”.

INNOVATION

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have made a robot that can play Scrabble and trash talk opponents. [Techcrunch]
Watch this woman get a 3D-printed skull put on her brain like a cap. [CNET]

PARTING SHOT

Think the weather in Ireland is bad? Check out Oymyakon, Russia where average temperatures are -50 degrees Celsius. [Weather.com]

First posted at 9.11pm

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