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

Independent TD Catherine Murphy speaking to reporters outside the High Court in relation to the Denis O Brien case. Photocall Ireland Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• A High Court judge ruled that the media are free to report Independent TD Catherine Murphy’s comments made in the Dáil last week in relation to Denis O’Brien’s finances. 
• Here is the article that Denis O’Brien’s lawyers did not want you to see last Thursday.
• The jury in the Sean Fitzpatrick trial was discharged.
• The former leader of the Labour Party Eamon Gilmore decided to step down as a TD at the next general election.
• The family of a garda who took his own life do not want GSOC involved in the investigation into his death.
• A man was found guilty of stabbing Irish woman Victoria Comrie Cullen. 
  
• The leader of Ireland’s Catholics said the Church felt a sense of “bereavement” at the same-sex marriage referendum result.
• An Irish priest wants to swap places in prison with Ibrahim Halawa.

Sepp Blatter. Adam Davy / PA Adam Davy / PA / PA

WORLD

#FIFA: Sepp Blatter resigned as Fifa President.

#UK: Four teenagers were seriously injured after a collision on an Alton Towers rollercoaster.

#UK: The former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy died aged 55.

#AUSTRALIA: An Australian political advisor dragged Ireland into their gay marriage debate and said we can’t even grow potatoes or pronounce the word “three”.

INNOVATION

• NASA has a fix for the problem of bugs splattering on windscreens. [Gizmodo]
• Netflix is experimenting with having trailers. [BBC]

PARTING SHOT

This Irish guy’s card trick is going viral. Be prepared to watch it back over and over again.

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