Updated 10.58pm

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

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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

Crowds of people gather in the main square of Madrid, Spain. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#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

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