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

Ireland

Huge crowds thronged Dublin's streets in protest today. Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

Water protest

• Dublin’s streets were thronged with tens of thousands of people protesting against water charges. Here’s what happened, minute-by-minute.
• TheJournal.ie travelled with some protesters from Tallaght to Dublin City.
• The garda riot squad was deployed at one point outside the Dáil with one officer receiving facial injuries.
• A person was hospitalised after a collision at the scene of a protest near Liberty Hall.
• Health Minster said that it “really bothers” him that people are protesting against water charges when there are “much bigger problems in Irish society”.

Other Irish news

• The Dáil voted unanimously to call on the Government to recognise the State of Palestine.
• Taoiseach Enda Kenny said he found the footage of abuse at the Áras Attracta care home “frightening, sickening, infuriating”.
• Irishman Philip Cullen missing in Portugal has been found at a Lisbon hospital.
• A recent spike in young people taking their own lives in Dublin is being linked to drug-related debts. 

International

Palestinian Cabinet member Ziad Abu Ain was killed after he was struck by a member of the Israeli Defence Forces. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#WEST BANK: The UN has called on Israel “to conduct a swift and transparent investigation into the circumstances of the brutal death,” of Abu Ein.

#PISTORIUS: Prosecutors can appeal Oscar Pistorius’ acquittal of the murder of Reeva Steenkamp, a judge has ruled.

#DOWNLOADING: File-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been taken down after a Swedish police raid in which servers and computers were taken.

#NSFW: A theatre in Scotland has apologised after it accidentally sent a ‘disgusting’ pornographic film instead of a school play to 100 families.

Innovation

• Facebook is developing artificial intelligence to help users avoid sending drunk photos of themselves.
• Yesterday we gave you our guide to the best PS4 games this Christmas. Tonight it’s the turn of Xbox One. 

Parting shot

A judge has thrown out the 1975 conviction of an Ohio man who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he never committed. The video of his tearful reaction bring a tear to your eye.