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

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IRISH

• Youth Defence had its website hacked.
• 165 amendments to the abortion bill have been tabled.
• The woman whose remains were found in Scotland with a Claddagh ring has been named as 66-year-old Irishwoman Phyllis Dunleavy.
• A man was arrested after a serious assault in Dublin 8 this evening.
• Former lobbyist Frank Dunlop told a court he can’t remember getting over £1 million in payments from a developer in the 90s. [RTE]
• 16 people were rescued from an apartment block blaze in Dublin, including a woman who went into labour.
• The Troika was back in town for the eleventh and penultimate review of our bailout programme.
• It emerged that 23 companies have been banned from JobBridge.
• The Taoiseach said he’d be willing to meet with property tax hunger striker Tony Rochford.
• The sun shone, all day long.

WORLD

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#APRIL JONES: The man convicted of abducting and killing the five-year-old Welsh girl was attacked in jail at the weekend. [The Sun]

#ITALY: The country’s “most hated man” went on trial today over the crash of his cruise ship last year with the loss of 32 lives. [AFP]

#NEW YORK: The NYPD started releasing harmless gases into the subway system today to study how chemical weapons could be dispersed through the air. [NBC]

#SNOWDEN: Edward Snowden has accepted an offer of asylum from Venezuela… or has he?

INNOVATION

Apple‘s App Store celebrated its fifth anniversary today, giving away loads of free apps and games. [The Verge]

The largest building in the world, complete with its own beach resort, opened in China. [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

A woman in New York, presumed dead, opened her eyes just minutes before doctors opened her up to harvest her organs. [AP]