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

Lissadell House, Co Sligo, with Benbulben in the background. Pic: Flickr/ Ireland’s Eye.

IRISH

• SIPTU trade union members at Newbridge Credit Union are meeting this evening to discuss the fall-out from the institution’s transfer to Permanent TSB.
• The Garda Ombudsman is investigating the death of a man at a garda station in Donegal last night.
• Owners of Lissadell House in Sligo do not have to allow right-of-way access, the Supreme Court has ruled.
• Parents are to be asked if they want their children to wear school uniforms under new plans announced today by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn.
• Six separate searches in Wexford led to seven arrests and the seizure of over €125,ooo worth of drugs.
• Tributes have been paid to SDLP co-founder Eddie McGrady who died today.
• Barratts has gone into administration for the third time in four years leading to fears for jobs at their 29 stores across Ireland.
• Gardaí are investigating after a woman’s face was slashed in an O’Connell Street attack.
• Child beauty pageant organiser Annette Hill is planning a second Irish contest.
• Tánaiste Éamon Gilmore said that, ‘There are people who know where those bodies were buried,” in answer to questions about those ‘disappeared’ in Northern Ireland.
• RSA has brought auditors PWC in to investigate the problem at the company that led to three executives being suspended.
• Recruitment company Indeed is expanding with 100 new staff being hired at their Dublin HQ.

WORLD

#TYPHOON HAIYAN: Between four and six million people have been affected in the Philippines with charities warning that the death toll, currently estimated to be around 10,000, could rise.

#COSTA CONCORDIA: A 35-year-old Dubliner is one of four people being questioned by Italian police after being arrested for boarding the wreck of the Costa Concordia illegally.

#IRAN: US Secretary of State John Kerry has said Iran backed out of a deal on its nuclear programme during talks with world powers in Geneva on Saturday. [BBC]

INNOVATION

• Two women have invented the world’s first invisible bike helmet. The Hövding (invisible helmet) is actually an air bag, which uses a helium gas cylinder to inflate when its sensors detect a sudden jolt.
• Apple took a lot of stick from users when Apple Maps was released last year but research has shown that users might have changed their minds in the long-run. [Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

Fifteen different locations in Central Park, New York were visited twice a week for six months to record this beautiful timelapse.

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