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

IRELAND 

Sebastian

• Parents are now able to sign their under-sixes up for free GP care.
• The jury in the trial of the three former Anglo Irish Bank officials have been told the trial will be ‘boring’ with no ‘punch ups’.
• A child rapist was moved to the UK after gardaí saw a video of him raping an 11-year-old girl.
• Four-year-old Sebastian has passed away just weeks after his family brought forward Christmas for him.
• A sex worker went on Ray D’Arcy to talk about her campaign and she wasn’t happy with how it went.
• An elderly woman lost her home after letting her son move in after his marriage breakdown.
• A man was rescued today after trying to hang himself outside Leinster House.
• SIPTU has called a rally in support of Clerys workers outside the department store on O’Connell Street, Dubin, tomorrow.
• Bike theft is on the rise and here’s what gardaí are doing about it.

INTERNATIONAL 

#RACHEL DOLEZAL: The black rights leader outed for not being black has quit her job.

#FINLAND: A woman has been sentenced to life in prison for killing her five newborns and hiding them in a freezer.

#SHARKS: Two teenagers lost limbs in two separate shark attacks in North Carolina yesterday.

#MALAYSIA: There’s been an outpouring of support for a top gymnast after she was criticised over her genitalia in a ‘revealing’ outfit.

INNOVATION

• If you’re an Xbox One owner, your games collection just got a massive boost. 
• One tech giant manged to teach 3,000 children how to build robots over the last year. [Wired]

PARTING SHOT 

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