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

IRELAND

Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe promoting work by the Cabra for Youth Street Art Group at Broombridge Railway Station. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

• 160 jobs are set to go as MBNA closes its call centre in Carrick-on-Shannon.
• A woman died after she fell onto the train track at Raheny Dart station in Dublin.
• The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has said that the Mooney Show on RTÉ was wrong to broadcast a programme that supported same-sex marriage.
  
• Multiple human remains have been found by archaeologists outside Trinity College as part of Luas construction works.
• Two people were found alive but the body of man was recovered in a search off the Cork coast.
• The High Court has ordered a TD and two councillors to stop blockading Greyhound bin trucks in Dublin.
• It doesn’t look like the Transport Minister will intervene in the rail dispute that’s threatening services on All-Ireland Final days.

INTERNATIONAL

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#CLIFF RICHARD: Police in the UK have searched a property owned by singer Cliff Richard over a sexual abuse allegation he has denied.

#FERGUSON: Two journalists were arrested and detained by police while reporting on the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in the US.

#DOUBLE DIP: Weak economic data from Germany, France and Italy has sent shock waves through the eurozone.

#ROBIN WILLIAMS: The wife of Robin Williams has said that the actor was in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease when he died

INNOVATION

• Ever wish your computer had a remote control? Turn your smartphone into one. 
• Is the internet nearly full and going to shut down? [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

In Madonna’s Vogue, the singer name-checked 16 movie icons as part of her homage to the golden age of Hollywood cinema. Lauren Bacall who died on Tuesday was the last surviving member of the group. [Slate]

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