Updated 10.50pm

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

Paris Bakery employees who found out today that they will now have access to the Insolvency Fund as Revenue steps in. Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRISH

• A report found there was no evidence GSOC offices were bugged by gardaí.
• A Commission of Investigation has been set up to look into mother and baby homes in Ireland.
• Ireland is to become the first country in the EU to introduce plain cigarette packaging.
• The body of a homeless man was found at the Mater Hospital a week after he died.
• Survivors of an air crash in at Cork Airport spoke at an inquest into the deaths of the two pilots and four passengers.
• The Houses of the Oireachtas made it onto the tax defaulters list.
• Gardaí are appealing for help tracing a missing mother-of-four and the family of another missing woman said they will never give up looking for her.
• Paris Bakery workers ended their sit-in as Revenue stepped in to wind down the company.
• In one day last year, 467 women and 229 children received domestic abuse support.

WORLD

People comfort each other as they await word about the safety of students after a shooting at Reynolds High School in Oregon. Faith Cathcard / The Orgonian/AP Faith Cathcard / The Orgonian/AP / The Orgonian/AP

#OREGON: A gunman shot a student dead at a highschool near Portland. [Associated Press]

#IRAQ: The Prime Minister has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after militants seized the country’s second city. [BBC]

#NIGERIA: Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped another 20 women from a settlement. [Associated Press]

#BELARUS: A man has been arrested after threatening to blow up a plane. [AFP]

INNOVATION

• Google bought a satellite company for $500 million. 
• Sony made a lot of announcements.
• You can now add ‘lost weight’ as a life event on Facebook. [Business Insider]

PARTING SHOT

To mark the publication of Hillary Clinton‘s memoir, Time has created this title generator so you can see what your political memoir would be called.

First published 9pm