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

Bruce Springsteen performs in Croke Park in Dublin to a capacity crowd. Sam Boal Sam Boal

IRELAND

• GSOC, the Garda Ombudsman, said that is has already investigated some claims of Garda malpractice highlighted by Sinn Féin TD Martin Kenny. 
• The Taoiseach’s 11 nominees for the Seanad were announced.
• Gardaí have arrested three people in 24 hours in connection with the ongoing gangland feud in Dublin.
• Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy has been given a November date for a tax evasion appeal.
• An Irishman was jailed over the murder of a woman in London.

WORLD

US President Barack Obama hugs Shigeaki Mori, an atomic bomb survivor; creator of the memorial for American WWII POWs killed at Hiroshima. Carolyn Kaster Carolyn Kaster

#JAPAN: US president Barack Obama paid tribute to the victims of the world’s first nuclear attack during his historic visit to Hiroshima. 

#PARIS: French unions urged workers to step up a wave of industrial action against a controversial labour law, a day after clashes over the reform rocked protests in Paris.

#UNITED STATES: A superbug resistant to all known medications was found in the United States for the first time.

INNOVATION

• Think charging your phone at a public USB port is safe? Think again.  
• Robots are now being taught how to feel pain.

PARTING SHOT

Check out this video of a badass Irish Army Rangers marine exercise.
https://www.facebook.com/thejournal.ie/videos/1131547266865696/

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