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

Donnacha Ryan, County Limerick with the Air Corps EC135 P2 aircraft at the launch of the Shannon Airport Airshow. Sean Curtin Sean Curtin

IRELAND

• The judgement on why RTÉ’s news story about Denis O’Brien was blocked was released.
• The Cabinet agreed to establish a commission of investigation into certain transactions carried out by IBRC.
• Sinn Féin received some $400,000 from US donors in the last year.
• Police in Northern Ireland are investigating after a tricolour flag was raised over Stormont.
• A 30-year-old Irish man died in a case of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.
• A man avoided jail after sexually abusing his 5-year-old niece.
• Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa’s trial was delayed again.
• The GSOC Commissioner defended the Garda watchdog’s investigation into the death of a garda who took his own life.
• The Central Mental Hospital is closing.
• A Canadian-American family of five has appealed to Justice Minister to intervene to allow them to stay in Ireland.
• A Catholic priest in Mayo called out people who voted Yes in the recent same-sex marriage referendum.
• Trans people in Ireland will no longer have to rely on testimony from psychiatrists or endocrinologists to have their gender recognised by the state.

WORLD

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#FRANCE: An Yves Saint Laurent ad was banned for using an ‘unhealthily underweight’ model.

#UK: Premier League footballer Adam Johnson pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual activity with an underage girl.

#UK: A BBC journalist caused quite the stir today when someone used her phone to tweet that Queen Elizabeth had been hospitalised.

INNOVATION

• New research suggests that chimps have most of the mental capabilities needed to cook food. [BBC]
• Watch NASA test a rocket engine that might one day take us to Mars. [The Verge]

PARTING SHOT

There has been much talk about Caitlyn Jenner this week. The latest is a sneak peak of her new TV series has been released. [MTV]