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

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IRISH

• Micheál Martin said James Reilly should resign but Brian Hayes said he has “absolute confidence” in him.
• Passengers were injured on a United Airlines flight from New York to Dublin.
• Two men appeared in court over a massive cocaine and heroin seizure.
• A man was seriously injured in a crash in Co Cork.
• It was revealed that a Dublin Fire Brigade vehicle was on a 20-minute delay to respond to calls.
• The former governor of Mounjoy Prison said dole cuts are likely to push young people into crime.
• Two cats were killed with firecrackers in Drogheda.
• One of the last residents at the Ballymun tower flats was preparing to leave tomorrow.

WORLD

#UNITED STATES: Banking giant JP Morgan was fined $13 billion by the US government.

#GREECE: The couple with whom a little blonde girl was found in a Greek Roma camp have said she was abandoned by her mother. [AFP]

#SYRIA: More than 30 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew up a truck filled with explosives in central Syria. [BBC]

INNOVATION

• The NSA has been spying on the Mexican and Brazilian governments’ email for years. [RT]
• You know those cool Roomba robot-hoovers? Well now someone has created a similar robot that both vaccums and mops all the floors in your home. Give it, give it now. [Gizmodo]

PARTING SHOT

How does a chicken cross the road? In a hi-vis jacket, obviously. No, really. [Telegraph]

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