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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