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

Ireland

A protester at tonight's homelessness forum in Dublin. Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Sligo Regional Hospital apologised to the family of Sally Rowlette, who died after giving birth there.
• Environment Minister Alan Kelly held an emergency forum on homelessness.
• It was alleged that Revenue had joined in a ‘political cover-up’ of Ansbacher tax evasion claims.
• A new poll shows Fine Gael now haven’t been so unpopular since 2003.
• Sinn Féin tabled a motion of no confidence against Enda Kenny, to be voted on next Wednesday
• Gardaí said they’d start a new search tomorrow near Portlaoise, as part of their investigation into the disappearance of Fiona Pender in 1996.
• Health Minister Leo Varadkar got a supplementary budget of €680 million – €200 million more than he asked for.
• A Sinn Féin councillor in Dublin revealed he’d received death threats warning him not to go to a water protests meeting tonight.
• 45,000 litres of toxic sludge, used in diesel laundering, was found in Co Louth.
• A Dublin man got a six-year jail term for damaging a €10 million Monet painting.

International

Esaw Garner, wife of Eric Garner, makes an impassioned statement in New York. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#WE CAN’T BREATHE: There was outrage in New York and across America after a jury decided not to try a white police officer whose chokehold killed unarmed black man Eric Garner.

#TRAGEDY: Police near Bristol in England found the body of Charlotte Bevan and her newborn child, after the two went missing from hospital yesterday.

#RAPE: Conservative MP Mark Pritchard was arrested by police investigating an alleged rape in London.

Innovation

• Google is going to release versions of Chrome, YouTube and Google search that are safe for children under 12.
• Tommy Hilfiger is producing a winter jacket with solar panels that can charge your smartphone. [Business Insider]

Parting Shot

Amid protests and disbelief at the death of Eric Garner, and a jury’s failure to indict the New York police officer involved, Wil Wheaton gives us this stark reminder of Garner’s dying words.

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