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

Michael Le Vell celebrating in Manchester following his court case today. (Image: Eamonn and James Clarke/Eamonn and James Clarke/EMPICS Entertainment)

IRELAND

• A murder investigation was launched after a man’s body was found at a beach in Meath.
• Rhino horns and other stolen artefacts have been recovered by gardaí.
• A sum of stolen cash hidden in shopping bags at a garden in Tallaght has been found.
• Enda Kenny says he has no problem meeting the residents of Priory Hall.
• Personal Insolvency Practitioner Jim Stafford said sorry for comments made to RTÉ about ‘bigger houses for professionals’.
• Gardaí want to speak to people who were on Dame Street yesterday when a man was stabbed multiple times.
• One hundred new jobs have been created in Cork.
• A cannabis growhouse was uncovered in a Gaeltacht area.
• Bomb experts made safe a viable device found at the cemetery where former Real IRA boss Alan Ryan is buried.
• The latest tax defaulters list includes four settlements of more than €1 million.
• A planned strike by junior doctors could be avoided.
• Colm Tóibín is on the Man Booker Prize shortlist.
• Senator Terry Leyden cancelled his Dáil bar event because he wrongly used Seanad stationary to invite people to his Roscommon pub.
• Oliver Kierans has been charged with the murder of his wife, Patricia, in Bailieborough. [RTÉ]

INTERNATIONAL

#COURTS: Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell is ‘delighted’ after being cleared of all charges of rape and other sexual offences in Manchester today.

#CHARGED: The Deputy Speaker in the British House of Commons was charged with sexual assault and rape.

#SYRIA: A frantic day on the diplomatic front which ended with Syria’s Foreign Minister claiming Damascus will declare its chemical weapons and sign the Chemical Weapons Convention. [Sky News]

#NUTRITION: A study has shown that commercial baby foods provide little extra nutritional goodness over breast milk.

INNOVATION

(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

• It was all about Apple today as the company announced its latest iPhone developments – the 5C and the 5S. Nokia did manage to steal some of the limelight, however.
• Apple also revealed that the iPhone 5S will have a fingerprint sensor, allowing users to unlock the device by just touching it.

PARTING SHOT

A Sand Lizard, which was hatched at Chester Zoo, is released into its natural habitat on the sand dunes at Gronant, Flintshire. (Peter Byrne/PA Wire)

Hundreds of sand lizards have been released at seven sites in the UK as conservationists try to restore the rare species as part of a long-term project. Sand lizards live only on sand dunes and lowland dry heath, and have vanished from much of England and Wales in the face of loss and fragmentation of their habitat due to development and changes to how land is used. [ITV News]

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