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

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IRELAND

• Ten people are emigrating from Ireland every hour.
• Hospital doctors say a strike is now “inevitable“.
• There has been a 1.8 per cent year-on-year increase in employment.
• Seven men have been arrested in a major Garda drugs raid in Dublin.
• The detained Halawa siblings are reported to have appeared before a Cairo prosecutor.
• A Priory Hall resident has written to the Taoiseach after her partner took his own life.
• The trial of men accused of killing two Irish women in Turkey has been adjourned.
• Over 15 per cent of Permanent TSB‘s home loan customers are in arrears.
• Plans for Ireland’s biggest mosque have been given the go-ahead.
• Sixty per cent of people in Ireland now have Facebook accounts.

INTERNATIONAL

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#CONFLICT: British Prime Minister David Cameron has made his case for military action in Syria.

#CRIMES: Rolf Harris has been charged with 13 child sex offences dating from 1980 to 2012.

#NORTH KOREA: The former girlfriend of Kim Jong-Un was executed by firing squad over an alleged porn scandal.

INNOVATION

• Twitter has introduced a new button to allow users to report tweets.
• Skype is working on 3D video calls – but it could take several years. [Silicon Republic]

PARTING SHOT

How much do you think you earn compared to everyone else in Ireland? Do you think you’re in the middle? The bottom 20 per cent? The top? Publicpolicy.ie has put together this rather nifty little interactive page so you can see where you think you come – and then where you actually do. Have a go here.