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

IRELAND

Digicom founder, Greg Clarke and RTÉ Dragon, Alison Cowzer, with Coleen Brennan and Eoin Devitt encouraging the business community to support the Simon House of Cards Appeal.

• Denis O’Brien has hit out at a new report which raises concerns about media ownership in Ireland.
• An eight-year-old schoolboy, who hit his head on concrete while attending a creche seven years ago, has been awarded €35,000 damages.
• Gardaí are probing an alleged abduction after a man was bundled into the back of another car and taken away.
• Dublin nightclub Krystle has been held responsible for a “heinous” assault on a student as the “private army” it employed to mount security on its premises.
• The latest JNLR listenership figures have revealed that it has been a good three months for RTÉ Radio One.
• AIB business customers are still facing outages after two days of disruptions.
• A court has heard that Eddie Hutch Jnr, whose father was murdered during a series of killings, is in a “fragile psychological state”.
•  A man in his 70s has been found dead after a house fire in Wexford this morning.
• A pedestrian has died after being hit by a truck on Dublin’s Meath Street.
• The Irish Cancer Society has highlighted the link between alcohol and breast cancer today in a bid to get the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 implemented in Ireland.

INTERNATIONAL

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#LIBYA: 29 migrants have died in toxic pool of fuel and seawater off the coast of Libya.

#ITALY: An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 5.4 has struck central Italy this evening.

#CALAIS: Esh fires broke out in the ‘Jungle’ on the second day of operations to dismantle the squalid migrant camp in northern France.

#ROME: The Vatican finance chief has been interviewed by Australian police in Rome over allegations of abuse of young boys at swimming pool.

INNOVATION

• An Irish health startup bankrolled by Starbucks’ head honcho just raised $40m [Fora.ie]
• Apple’s sales have stalled for the first time in 15 years. [Fora.ie]

PARTING SHOT

U2 wrote a special song to bid farewell to TXFM this evening [DailyEdge.ie]