Updated 22:59

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

Officials from the EU, ECB and IMF, including Ajai Chopra, at the Department of Finance. (Pic: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

IRELAND

• St Vincent’s Hospital has defended its top-up payments to staff.
• The IMF has said guaranteeing the bondholders was a bad idea.
• A report into the death of a baby says ambulance personnel did not follow procedures.
• Tomorrow’s strike by 2,000 workers at Marks and Spencer has been called off.
• A 5-year-old girl is in serious condition after heavy winds caused a car crash in Galway.
• Donations to St Vincent de Paul charity are down by around 25 per cent.
• Burglaries are down 10 per cent (but theft is up) in the latest crime figures.
• The ASTI has accepted the Haddington Road Agreement the second time around.
• All major power faults have been cleared after last night’s freak weather.
• AIB has been fined €490,000 by the Central Bank.
• Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan has challenged a Minister to drink a glass of ‘glorified piss’ (don’t worry, it was just water).
• A puppy farm in Dublin has been closed by the DSPCA.

INTERNATIONAL

(AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

#SHAFTESBURY AVENUE: At least 88 people have been injured, seven of them seriously, after the roof collapsed on a London theatre during a performance.

#LEE RIGBY: Two men have been convicted of the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby on a London street earlier. They will be sentenced in the coming weeks.

#PARDON: Russian president Vladimir Putin says he will pardon jailed ex-oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. [BBC]

#SOUTH AFRICA: The controversial sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital.

INNOVATION

• The EU has passed a provisional deal on universal mobile phone chargers coming as standard with all phones.
• Facebook and a number of banks face a lawsuit over misleading investors before its IPO.

PARTING SHOT

Filmmaker Casey Neistat was offered $25,000 of 20th Century Fox’s money to make a promotional video for the studio’s upcoming film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – and he spent it all on a video about helping victims of the typhoon in the Philippines. Here’s what he made.

(Video: CaseyNeistat/YouTube)

Originally published 21:00