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

IRELAND

The coffin of Eoghan Culligan is carried during his funeral at the Church of the Annunciation, Rathfarnham Niall Carson Niall Carson

• Today the funerals of Berkeley victims Eoghan Culligan and Eimear Walsh took place. 
• The preliminary report on the balcony collapse points to badly rotted wooden beams.
• The jury in the trial of a childminder charged with assaulting a baby have been told not to base their verdict on sympathy.
• Paul Murphy accused Michael Noonan of ‘stabbing the Greek people in the chest’.
• A woman was jailed for stealing €57,000 from ATMs to pay for her father’s kidney transplant.
• One of the victims of paedophile Brendan Smyth has said that her life was “turned upside down” by the abuse she suffered.
• Brian Kidd has been missing from his Cork home since last week.
• Donegal could have to wait another 7 years for broadband.
• 105-year-old Elizabeth Dempsey shared her secrets to a long and healthy life today. 

INTERNATIONAL

#POLAND: Two British teens were arrested after allegedly stealing items from Auschwitz.

#BLOOD SUPPLY: Skinny jeans now come with a worrying health warning.

#CALIFORNIA: A composer who wrote My Heart Will Go On has died in a plane crash.

#BRISBANE: This video shows schoolkids narrowly avoiding injury in a motorbike crash.

INNOVATION

• Facebook can recognise you in photos even if it can’t see your face. [TheJournal.ie]
• One of Gmail’s best experimental features has been made official. [TheJournal.ie]
• Forget phones, Samsung’s developing a truck that could help reduce road deaths. [TheJournal.ie]

PARTING SHOT 

Live in Dublin? This infographic claims to know your favourite lipstick shade.

[DailyEdge]