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

IRELAND

Members of the public signing a petition outside the GPO on O’connell Street supporting the call for government to take the Apple tax of €13 billion. Rollingnews.ie Rollingnews.ie

• The Cabinet failed to agree on whether to appeal the Apple tax ruling 
• The European Commission said Ireland would not be obligated to use billions of euro of back taxes from Apple to pay down its national debt
• Pat Hickey’s family have said he is receiving the necessary support from the Irish Government
• The Hawe family, whose bodies were found at their home in Cavan on Monday, will be buried together on Saturday
• A new heroin overdose antidote, Naloxone, has saved five lives under a HSE pilot programme
• A United Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Shannon Airport, with 16 people being taken to hospital
• TV3 launched its new schedule, with Pat Kenny teaming up with Colette Fitzpatrick announced for a current affairs show
• A mushroom factory in Tipperary closed down in what is being dubbed as the first Irish casualty of Brexit

WORLD

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#UK: British Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted there will be no u-turn on the UK leaving the European Union.

#BRAZIL: Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, was stripped of the country’s presidency today in a Senate impeachment vote.

#USA: Musician Chris Brown was released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of assault.

#MEXICO: Donald Trump has announced that he will travel to Mexico today to meet its president.

INNOVATION

• Some of the world’s earliest life forms may have been captured in squiggles found in ancient rocks from Greenland. [BBC]
  
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PARTING SHOT

If you have been experiencing Stranger Things withdrawl symptoms, we have good news for you: it’s coming back.

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