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

Two tankers are battered by gale winds while at the roadstead in the rough waters of the Gulf of Cagliari, Sardinia. (Image Credit: AP Photo/Max Solinas)

IRISH

• Taoiseach Enda Kenny confirmed to the Dáil that almost a third of voluntary hospitals funded by the State are breaching pay rules.
• Power cuts could be experienced if strike action at ESB goes ahead, a union boss warned, something which the Tánaiste said public will ‘have no tolerance’ for.
• One suspect was arrested following an armed robbery on a bank in Stillorgan, south Dublin, this morning.
• In a separate incident, a man was detained at Coolock Garda Station after an attempted Post Office robbery in north Dublin.
• The Oireachtas Health Committee is to hold hearings on the legislation that will bring in standard cigarette packaging on tobacco products.
• A former Anglo Irish Bank secretary appeared in court charged with several Revenue offences. [RTÉ]
• The cabinet signed off on more plans to support an all-Ireland bid to host the Rugby World Cup in 2023.
• Over 50 horses were seized by the Department of Agriculture in an operation in Cork city.
• A Fine Gael town councillor said that gender quotas ‘weaken’ the position of female politicians.
• UCD Students’ Union launched a campaign to highlight an infringement of student’s rights in campus accommodation.
• Now only bakers in Waterford are able to refer to their floury baps as “blaas“.

WORLD

#SOUTH AFRICA: One person has died and as many as 50 could be trapped following a building collapse near the South African city of Durban.

#SARDINIA: Flash floods on the holiday island of Sardinia have killed 14 people according to the region’s president.

#LEBANON: 22 were killed and more than a hundred injured in a double suicide bombing at the the Iranian embassy in Beirut. [BBC]

#PORTUGAL: The Eurozone approved the penultimate stage of the Portugal’s bailout programme.

INNOVATION

• The European Space Agency is to launch a number of probes to investigate some strange goings-on in Earth’s magnetic field.
• Nokia shareholders overwhelmingly approved Microsoft’s €5.4bn takeover. [Silicon Republic]

PARTING SHOT

A 48 year-old song was given a new lease of life in first official video for Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone. The interactive video allows you flick through fake television stations, each of which features characters lip-syncing the lyrics. Watch it here.

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