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

An Taoiseach Enda Kenny pictured with members of the Palestrina Choir at Government Buildings today. (Pic: Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland)

IRISH

• A garda investigation has been launched after 1.5 million people are believed to have been affected by the large-scale data breach at the Ennis-based loyalty scheme company Loyaltybuild.
• Police in London have said that 11-year-old Kathleen Doherty who has gone missing could be anywhere in the UK or Ireland.
• A woman who was forced to travel to the UK to terminate her unviable pregnancy is filing a petition to the United Nations claiming that the Irish government has violated her human rights.
• The Government have backtracked on an amendment to the Freedom of Information Bill regarding multiple charges, withdrawing the proposed changes subject to new wording.
• A man injured in a baseball bat attack on Main Street in Swords last month has died in hospital.
• After 30 years of managing one of the most successful bands in the world, Paul McGuinness is to step down as manager of U2.
• Gardaí have arrested almost 7,000 people over the past 18 months under Operation Fiacla, which was set up to target burglars.
• Leap Card users will pay a maximum of €10 per day to use public transport as a result of a new fare cap.
• Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin today accused the Government of “making life unbearable” for middle-income families after a hike in health insurance levies.
• The Garda Commissioner has said reports that social workers were left out of the loop when gardaí removed a two-year-old Roma boy from his family were “not accurate”.
• Over 1,000 people in Dublin, Wicklow and Kildare have contracted gonorrhoea this year according to the HSE.
• A member of An Garda Síochána was injured in Dublin today when his official motorcycle was rammed by a car.
• Gardaí are seeking help in tracing the whereabouts of Ella Owusu who has been missing from her home in Balbriggan since Monday.

WORLD

#TYPHON HAIYAN: Irish Charity GOAL says the Government’s response to the disaster in the Philippines has not been “proportionate to the scale of the disaster”.

#UK: A British spy whose naked body was found locked in a sports bag inside a bathtub three years ago most likely killed himself by accident according to UK police.

#SOLD: A Francis Bacon painting sold for $142 million in New York last night, setting a world record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.

INNOVATION

• Snapchat recently turned down a $3 billion cash offer from Facebook to buy the photo messaging service. [Wall Street Journal]
• Netflix has given its TV app a major update as it aims to get more people using its service on their televisions.

PARTING SHOT

Yes, this is exactly what you think it is, the entire Big Lebowski movie...in gif form. The Coen Brothers classic LA mystery is just one of a list of movies that have been compressed into gifs of up to 40-seconds in length on Reddit: r/fullmoviegifs. Oh, and eh, Spoiler Alert!...obviously.

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