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Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday
Everyone’s talking about the Labour Party, the bodies of 800 babies in Tuam and a review of the Justice Department.
Updated 10.58pm
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news…
IRISH
- The nominations for Labour Party leadership closed with just Alex White and Joan Burton battling it out for the top position.
- Finance Minister Michael Noonan confirmed he has received treatment for skin cancer this year.
- It was announced that the CEO of Dublin Airport Authority will chair a review by six experts of the Department of Justice.
- Unions met with Bausch & Lomb management and all sides said they are now looking at options to secure the plant’s future.
- Cabinet did not discuss allegations of a mass grave with the bodies of 800 babies in Tuam but “the matter is being taken very, very seriously”.
- Lawyers for the receiver appointed over Quinn family assets said their bank transaction explanations were totally inadequate. [RTÉ]
- A 73-year-old man died in a house fire in Galway.
- Almost 50,000 people dropped their health insurance last year.
- Brian O’Driscoll is to join Newstalk’s Off the Ball team as co-presenter in September.
WORLD
#PORTUGAL: Searches of wasteland in Praia de Luz continued with officers thought to be using ground-penetrating radar equipment. [AFP]
#SPAIN: Huge crowds took to the streets to protest against the monarchy after the abdication of King Juan Carlos yesterday. [AFP]
#EGYPT: Ex-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been declared president-elect with 96.9 per cent of the votes in the election. [AFP]
#QATAR: Irish companies operating in Qatar have been warned that the labour system there could be seen to facilitate a form of slave labour.
INNOVATION
- Google received 41,000 requests to delete search results in just four days.
- Pixar is going to give away 3D rendering software used in films like Toy Story and Monsters Inc. [BBC]
- Gizmodo took a look at how applying electrical currents to your brain could alleviate pain – and why the US military is so interested in this. [Gizmodo]
PARTING SHOT
The Guardian readers snapped these great photos for May’s travel photo competition, with beautiful shots of both wild animals and wild landscapes.
First published 9pm
