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

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary at the airline’s AGM today [Photocall]

IRELAND

• Donegal teenager Conor Boyle passed away in hospital in England.
• TUI members accepted the Haddington Road deal, while the ASTI said ‘no’.
• Junior doctors called off their strike for a week after progress in talks.
• Ryanair promised to refund Dr Sattar for his Leicester flight fees.
• Michael Noonan signalled a rise in VAT for the hospitality sector.
• Micheál Martin accepted an invitation to a Seanad debate, but Enda Kenny hasn’t yet.
• Concerns were raised over a child beauty pageant organiser’s lack of contact with parents.
• Five people were rescued after a 17 hour emergency effort.
• The Health Minister defended staffing levels in the mental health sector.
• There were calls for an independent investigation into Ireland’s illegal adoptions.
• Naval vessel the LÉ Emer was decommissioned.
• The Children’s Minister said the number of obese three-year-olds was ‘frightening’.
• Claims by Fine Gael on the cost of the Seanad were disputed.

INTERNATIONAL

[Elephant in India, via Shutterstock]

#CHICAGO: Twelve people, including a 3-year-old, were shot in a Chicago park.

#SYRIA: The Deputy Prime Minister of Syria admitted the civil war had reached a stalemate.

#INDIA: A British man was trampled to death by a rampaging elephant in India.

#BRITAIN: There was a warning that children were being blackmailed into performing webcam sex acts.

INNOVATION

• Reviews from around the world of the latest iPhone and iPad operating system were decidedly mixed.
• Google has begun rolling out a redesign of its homepage, intended to cut down on ‘distractions’. [BBC]

PARTING SHOT

UKIP politician Godfrey Bloom has been fighting a one man war with journalists today.

The irascible MEP whacked Channel 4′s Michael Crick on the head with a party brochure, after the reporter had asked why there weren’t “any black faces” depicted on the cover.

We can’t stop watching this…

Check out the full story here.

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