NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Police in Belfast are investigating after a man in his 30s was shot dead
- Labour came back into the reckoning as government-forming efforts continued
- An investigation got under way after a 36-year-old woman was found dead
- A pedestrian died in an early morning collision in Dublin
- A probe continued into a heartless attack on an elderly woman who uses a zimmer frame
- There was warm praise for Mouse Morris following his emotional Late Late interview
- Michael O’Leary had a thing or two to say about independents (nothing positive)
- Top Gear’s Matt LeBlanc caused a stir as the show filmed in Kerry
- And… ever had sex with a stranger?
WORLD
#POPE FRANCIS: The pope brought twelve refugees home to Rome with him, after paying a historic visit to the Greek island of Lesbos
#JAPAN: The death toll from the Japanese earthquake rose, in the wake of more tremors
INNOVATION
- A string of restaurants in China that used robots as waiters has run into a string of difficulties… That inevitable robot uprising may be a few years off yet
- A US cinema chain has reversed its controversial plan to allow texting in some venues [BBC]
PARTING SHOT
Criticism of the late Terry Wogan by the producer of this year’s Eurovision hasn’t gone down too well. Christer Bjorkman said the beloved presenter, who died in January, had made a mockery of the contest during his decades in the commentary chair for the BBC.
It turns out Bjorkman is a former singer and Eurovision contestant. We dug out what Terry had to say about his performance back at the 1992 contest (when he was beaten by Linda Martin).
Source: escbelgium4/YouTube
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