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

IRELAND

Model Kayla McGowan today at the launch of Inspire, Munster's fashion event held at the Crescent Shopping Centre, Limerick. Source: True Media

• A new report showed that less than half of the Defence Forces were satisfied with military life.
• Gardaí announced a woman died from her injuries following a car crash earlier this month.
• It was announced that an excavation would take place at the site of an alleged mass grave at the former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway.
• Nine were arrested after gardaí uncovered €1.2 million worth of cannabis plants in armed raids.

WORLD

Former US President Bill Clinton passes the flag-draped coffin of former Israeli President Shimon Peres today in Israel.

#ISRAEL: World leaders bid farewell to Israeli former-president and Nobel Peace laureate Shimon Peres at his funeral in Jerusalem.

#ROSETTA: The pioneering Rosetta probe crash-landed on Comet 67P.

#GERMANY: A woman was arrested after a newborn baby and the skeleton of another infant were discovered in a suitcase in Hanover.

INNOVATION

• Video game streaming site is going to introduce its own virtual currency (via The BBC)
• VW’s electric car hopes to be fully self-driving by 2025 (via extremetech.com).

PARTING SHOT

Dublin, isn’t it beautiful? Here’s a poem about folk from the fair city and beyond as part of the UNESCO Dublin City of Literature
https://www.facebook.com/dublincityofliterature/videos/1073019959414092/