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