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

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IRELAND

• A strike at Dublin Bus looks certain to go ahead, with no sign of any last minute return to talks – all Nitelink services for the city have been cancelled tonight.
• Two young men from Letterkenny were killed and two others injured in a horrific car crash in rural Donegal early this morning.
• A man arrested yesterday over the gangland-style killing of Michael Kelly in Dublin has been released without charge.
• The 500 acre Fota Island Resort in Cork has been purchased from Nama by Chinese investors for around €20 million.
• A man detained by gardaí in the wake of an attack in Inchicore that left a man in his mid-40s in a critical condition appeared in court.
• Fine Gael’s Richard Bruton is calling for politicians to conduct themselves in a civilised manner in the campaign on the Seanad referendum.
• A woman held overnight by gardaí in connection with the death of a man at Arklow Pier has been released without charge.
• The son of Bishop Eamon Casey has said he wanted to “deck” Gay Byrne over the broadcaster’s treatment of his mother in a Late Late Show interview.

WORLD

(Image: AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

#ZIMBABWE: President Robert Mugabe (above) claims to have won a landslide victory in the country’s election, but longtime opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says he’ll appeal the result in the courts.

#BRAZIL: 25 police officers have been sentenced to life in prison for their part in the deaths of 111 inmates in a 1992 jail massacre in Sao Paulo.

#IRAN: Hassan Rowhani has taken over Iran’s presidency today, promising to work to lift punishing sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic over its nuclear programme.

INNOVATION

• The head of Twitter in the UK has apologised to people who have received abusive messages on the micro-blogging service, and pledged to change the company’s rules in the area.
• Dublin City Council is working with IBM to see whether the city could make use of the tech giant’s forecasting service ‘Deep Thunder’ to help predict flash floods.

PARTING SHOT

Margaret Thatcher’s integrity is under threat: Westminster MPs are being warned to keep control of their busy fingers, and not touch a statue of the late former prime minister. The statue – along with one of Winston Churchill – is at serious risk from “wear and tear”, politicians are being told. [The Guardian]

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