NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Ireland’s women’s rugby team beat New Zealand at the World Cup.
- The Budget may be not quite as harsh as expected.
- Protesters held Israeli boycott ‘die-ins’ at Dublin shops.
- The Central Bank says the mortgage arrears crisis is far from over.
- Forensic investigators have searched a house to solve a 1989 murder.
- Hurricane Bertha will tire itself out before it hits Ireland, say forecasters.
- SIPTU says shift work may be damaging to people’s health.
- There were a mere 13 complaints about advertisements last month.
- A Dublin hotel which features in Ulysses won’t be demolished after all.
- Don’t go into the water at twelve Dublin beaches…
INTERNATIONAL
#UP IN THE AIR: A man has been arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat on a passenger plane flying from Qatar to Manchester.
#SURROGACY: An Australian couple accused of abandoning their baby who has Down syndrome have said that their Thai surrogate mother has ‘misled’ the world over what happened.
#FORMULA 1: Bernie Ecclestone is to pay €75 million to end his trial… for bribery.
INNOVATION
- Meet the Swedish science teacher who has created 3 million articles on Wikipedia [Guardian]
- Sony has given up on selling e-readers, saying the market is just not big enough. [BBC]
PARTING SHOT
This is interesting: this map shows the most commonly spoken language – after English – across each area of London. Some are predictable (Polish, Punjabi and Turkish all feature) but others are less so. [Randomly London]
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