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

IRISH

A photo taken atop Mount Brandon on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry that has gone viral five years after it was taken. Kerry Airport Should Be Renamed Tom Crean's Airport / Máire Criomhthain Kerry Airport Should Be Renamed Tom Crean's Airport / Máire Criomhthain / Máire Criomhthain

• A banking expert called the bank guarantee ‘the most destructive own goal in history‘.
• Austerity is over (actually, it was over a year ago, apparently).
• Michael Lowry was granted leave in his trial over allegedly filing false tax returns.
• The Cabinet approved calorie counts on menus.
• Ryanair was told it won’t have to pay millions in air travel taxes.
• Five men were arrested over burglaries in Tipperary.
• Revenue revealed the property tax compliance rate for this year is (currently) 84%.
• A councillor‘s office was vandalised with ‘horrendous graffiti of a sexual nature’.
• New figures showed who’s listening to who on Irish radio.
• More than a hundred puppies were seized at Dublin Port.
• It emerged porn videos are being hidden on Youtube using Gaelige.

WORLD

A murmuration of starlings seen in the Negev Desert near Rahat, southern Israel. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#AUSTRALIA: An Irish man allegedly punched by his own brother was discharged from hospital.

#GREECE: There has been no new agreement on the country’s attempts to revise their bailout programme. [Ekathimerini]

#MIDDLE EAST: Jordanian jets launched new attacks on IS. [BBC News]

#TAIWAN: Rescuers searched for 12 people still missing following yesterday’s plane crash.

#UNITED KINGDOM: Gary Glitter was found guilty of child sex charges.

INNOVATION

• This smartphone accessory can diagnose HIV in minutes.
• Twitter‘s CEO took personal responsibility for the company’s lack of action in dealing with trolls.
• A robot firefighter was put out its first blaze.

PARTING SHOT

“Mr. Daly — who thinks he is in his early 70s but does not know precisely because, he says, the priest who kept such records drank a lot — has been thinking about love most of his life.” – This is the story of one of Ireland’s last traditional matchmakers. [New York Times]