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

Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland... Mural at a building in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland... Mural at a building in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin / Photocall Ireland... Mural at a building in Grand Canal Dock, Dublin

IRELAND

• Details emerged of 133 garda recordings in the du Plantier murder case 
• A ten-year-old boy died after being hit by a car
• There were two separate appeals for missing men
• The Taoiseach said he was very popular altogether
• HIQA was critical of a disability care unit
• The PAC said Angela Kerins was still expected to appear next week
• A special toilet was used for a man to pass cannabis pellets
• Trinity College got a new temporary gate
• An Irish restaurant was named in the world’s top 100
• Ryanair promised 200 new jobs 
• And Enda and Michael had the craic 

16-year-old Ella Birchenough was rescued by firefighters in Dover, Kent after becoming stuck in a drain [Tim Richards/PA Wire]

WORLD

#USA: There was another mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas

#AUSTRALIA: Officials said they’d look for MH370 ’till Hell freezes over’

#LA: Nigella Lawson was prevented from flying, because of her cocaine confession

INNOVATION

• Turkey has lifted its Twitter ban, it appears
• And, have you seen the new Ryanair campus in Swords? 

PARTING SHOT

That Bill Murray, always up to Bill Murray things…

Here he is Bill Murraying around on the Letterman show — taking a selfie with Lady Gaga, amongst other things (it was on his bucket list, apparently).

(Youtube: Late Show with David Letterman)

Note: We included that clip in our early edition of the news fix, published at 9pm. That was before the news broke that Letterman’s to quit his long-running show next year.

Spooky.

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