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NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news…
IRISH
- A report found there was no evidence GSOC offices were bugged by gardaí.
- A Commission of Investigation has been set up to look into mother and baby homes in Ireland.
- Ireland is to become the first country in the EU to introduce plain cigarette packaging.
- The body of a homeless man was found at the Mater Hospital a week after he died.
- Survivors of an air crash in at Cork Airport spoke at an inquest into the deaths of the two pilots and four passengers.
- The Houses of the Oireachtas made it onto the tax defaulters list.
- Gardaí are appealing for help tracing a missing mother-of-four and the family of another missing woman said they will never give up looking for her.
- Paris Bakery workers ended their sit-in as Revenue stepped in to wind down the company.
- In one day last year, 467 women and 229 children received domestic abuse support.
WORLD
#OREGON: A gunman shot a student dead at a highschool near Portland. [Associated Press]
#IRAQ: The Prime Minister has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after militants seized the country’s second city. [BBC]
#NIGERIA: Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped another 20 women from a settlement. [Associated Press]
#BELARUS: A man has been arrested after threatening to blow up a plane. [AFP]
INNOVATION
- Google bought a satellite company for $500 million.
- Sony made a lot of announcements.
- You can now add ‘lost weight’ as a life event on Facebook. [Business Insider]
PARTING SHOT
To mark the publication of Hillary Clinton‘s memoir, Time has created this title generator so you can see what your political memoir would be called.
First published 9pm
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