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

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IRISH

• Lucinda Creighton resigned and Pascal Donohoe replaced her.
• A report revealed 40 girls under 18 became pregnant following a rape in 2011.
• Two teenagers, in Roscommon and in Clare, died in drownings.
• 14 windows were smashed by youths on a DART carriage.
• New material from the Murphy Report gives an insight into complaints of sexual abuse against Fr Patrick McCabe.
• There were 429 civil partnerships in Ireland last year.
• Property tax protester Tony Rochford ended his hunger strike.
• A man was charged with the murder of two elderly brothers in Mayo. [RTÉ]
• Standard & Poor’s upgraded our credit rating.
• SIPTU Dublin Bus drivers voted in favour of strike action.
• The inventor of Twister died.

WORLD

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#FRANCE: Six people have been killed after a train derailed near a Paris suburb. [AFP]

#SNOWDEN: US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden met with human rights groups at Moscow airport. [BBC]

#ENGLAND: A plane caught fire on the runway at London Heathrow Airport. [Reuters]

INNOVATION

Twitter has disclosed the authors of anti-Semitic tweets in France to the authorities. [The Verge]

A student from Finglas is hoping to become the first Irish man in space.

PARTING SHOT

This video report by The Guardian follows a young boy working in sugarcane fields in Cambodia, where an EU supplier is accused of using child labour and being involved in taking land from local farmers.

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