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

IRELAND

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• There were calls for an investigation after a video appeared to show a garda pepper-spraying a homeless man. 
• Flights at Dublin Airport were delayed after a dog got loose on the runway. 
• A lorry full of donations for Chernobyl children was trashed in Kilkenny. 
• Ryanair’s board has signed off on transatlantic flights.
• Most Irish radio stations took part in a coordinated tribute to Tony Fenton. 
• A man died after his car crashed into a parked vehicle in Kilkenny.
• Two would-be armed robbers were found in the boot of a car with a knife, ski masks and a wig.
• The loyalist parade planned for Dublin has been called off. 
• Fidelma Health Eames had more to say about THAT Tweet. 

WORLD 

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#RUSSIA: Vladimir Putin has dismissed days of frenzied “rumours” over his health and whereabouts as he reappeared in public after an unusually long 10-day absence.

#SOUTH PACIFIC: Scenes of devastation are being witnessed in Vanuatu after the South Pacific archipelago was hit by Cyclone Pam. At least six people have died.

#UK: And the BBC has begun an internal investigation into an incident that led to the suspension of Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson.

INNOVATION

• A long-running tribute to late Terry Pratchett is being staged with the help of some of the web’s servers. How? It’s complicated.[BBC]
• Youtube now supports 360-degree videos. 

PARTING SHOT

Finally… Just when we thought the international coverage of #YokeGate had died down, the subject has popped up again – on John Oliver’s ‘Last Week Tonight’… last night.

Morto.