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

IRELAND

This year the DSPCA are celebrating 175 years in existence and as Ireland's oldest and largest animal charity and marked the occasion with a visit by the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. Mark Stedman Mark Stedman

• A man who carried out a prolonged violent attack on two people in a row over a seat on a bus has received a three year suspended sentence.
• A child care centre, which cared for five children over the past year, recorded 386 significant incidents including an attempt to set the centre on fire.
• James Reilly had to abandon his car after it was surrounded by protesters at an event in south Dublin yesterday evening.
• The Anti-Austerity Alliance has unveiled a radical alternative budget which would abolish water charges, property tax and USC for low earners.
• A barman has received a three year suspended sentence for stabbing a man with a steak knife after finding him in bed with his ex-partner.
• Irish rents have soared a new record – and it’s not a good one.
• A total of 188 people were arrested at water charge protests since November 2014.
• Gardaí in Cork are appealing for information to help find missing 16-year-old Darnel Hayes.
• Police believe Katie Grout, a 23-year-old woman missing from England, may be travelling to Ireland.
• The two unions planning strike action at Irish Rail have agreed to fresh talks next week.
• Facebook has apologised for banning an ‘overly sexual’ breast check ad.
• A meteor shower will be visible over Ireland tonight.

INTERNATIONAL 

#THIRD INTIFADA: Israeli gunfire killed six Palestinians and wounded dozens during clashes near Gaza’s border today.

#GREECE: A one-year-old boy has died after a boat carrying migrants began sinking during the night.

#FLORIDA: The families of three high school students who died after being hypnotised by a former principal will receive $200,000 each in compensation.

#BRITAIN: A nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has been transferred to an isolation unit in London after an “unusual late complication” with her illness.

INNOVATION

• The new iPhones arrive today, and this is how much they will set you back.
• Google gave the guy who bought Google.com a reward – here’s what he did with it

PARTING SHOT 

You may not have known this, but one of our finest exports, Michael Fassbender, got his start in acting like any other Irish kid: as an altar server.