NEED TO CATCH UP? TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of today’s news.

Garda forensic officers at the Square Bar in Bailieborough in Cavan today. (Pic: Liam McBurney/PA Wire)

IRELAND

• A man is being questioned over the murder of a woman in Bailieborough.
• Almost €4k was spent on alcohol in Dáil bars on the night of the abortion debate.
• Denis O’Brien is not liable for a potential €57 million tax bill.
• HIQA had to take emergency action to protect children in foster care in Mayo.
• 169 jobs are at risk at a jewellery manufacturer in Limerick.
• Airtricity is increasing household gas prices.
• Aja Teehan faces a €10,000 legal bill over her home birth legal case.
• Former Fianna Fáil TD Chris Andrews wants to run for Sinn Féin.
• A man has been arrested over the death of a woman in Navan.
• An undisclosed sum of money has gone missing from a garda station.
• Ireland’s Annalise Murphy is European champion.

INTERNATIONAL

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

#SYRIA: International leaders have been unable to agree on Syria at the G20. [BBC]

#SPAIN: The phone call made by the Spanish train driver immediately after the crash that left 79 people dead has been released.

#WORLD WAR II: Hitler’s bodyguard, the last surviving witness of his final days, has died in Berlin. [Guardian]

INNOVATION

• A new service called Oyster aims to do for books what Netflix has done for tv: to make lots of them available for a set price per month. [Forbes]
• These unexpectedly beautiful x-rays show the hidden technology behind some iconic luxury items. [Wired]

PARTING SHOT

Julian Assange hasn’t left Ecuador’s embassy in London in more than a year. In this piece, Vanity Fair covers what his life is like now – and how he’s still controlling things from within the embassy’s four walls. [Vanity Fair]

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