NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Dublin have beaten unlucky Mayo by a point in the replay of the gaelic football All-Ireland final.
- Gardaí have arrested a man as part of a murder investigation after a man’s body was found in a remote wooded area near Tallaght.
- A man has collapsed and died while refereeing an under-16s camogie match in Douglas, Co Cork.
- The head of an Irish hospital organisation said that the public had become “immune” to bad news and that the system is “rationing health care” to patients.
- Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar said he thinks “it would be unfair” to restore gardaí’s pay, but said they do “a very important job”.
WORLD
#SAN DIEGO: Police released two videos showing an officer fatally shooting an unarmed black man, and hoped the footage would ease escalating tensions.
#US ELECTION: Hillary Clinton has edged ahead of presidential rival Donald Trump in a new national poll released yesterday, just days after the first televised debate.
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#SCOTLAND: Boxer Mike Towell has died in the aftermath of a bout in Glasgow on Thursday evening.
INNOVATION
- An insightful look at why Facebook – the social media success used by over 1 billion people worldwide – failed to make ecommerce work on its site [Guardian]
- Authorities in the netherlands are taking the creator of Pokemon Go to court after it failed to stop crowds flocking to protected beaches to catch Pokemon [Guardian]
PARTING SHOT
Jason McAteer gave an emotional account on last night’s Late Late Show of how depression took hold of him after he retired from professional football – and how his family helped him battle back.

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