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

IRELAND

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• A protest against water charges took place outside the Dáil this evening.
• A new political party called the Social Democrats was launched by three independent TDs this morning.
• A 17-year-old girl died after becoming ill at a Letterkenny nightclub.
• Mick Wallace claims ‘€15,000 in a bag’ was paid to a Nama official.
• A manhunt is underway for a prisoner after two prisoners escaped in Co Clare this afternoon.
• The woman was raped while asleep by her then-boyfriend said she is “shocked” over comments made by broadcaster George Hook.
• A Romanian national who stole at least €85,000 from the State by claiming social welfare under a false name 463 times has been jailed for three years.
• The majority of Irish people think undocumented migrants should be given right to live and work here.
• A motorcyclist in his 20s has died in a crash in Cork.

INTERNATIONAL

#LOS ANGELES: Police have been forced to release dashcam video of officers shooting dead an unarmed Latino man after he took his hat off.

#GERMANY: A former Nazi SS officer known as the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz has been sentenced to four years in prison.

#MARYLAND: Two sisters aged 10 and 12 disappeared 40 years ago. Now, a man’s been charged.

#INVESTIGATION: London police tweeted – then deleted – this photo of a famous comedian taken from a helicopter.

#BRIGHTON: The 15-year-old son of Nick Cave has died tragically.

INNOVATION

• Google map maker will be returning in early August after an edit of an Android robot peeing on an Apple logo led to it being temporarily suspended. [TheJournal.ie]
• iPods are still a thing, Apple insists. [TheJournal.ie]

PARTING SHOT

Have you seen this video of a plane making an emergency landing on a busy road?