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

IRELAND

• An Irish man and his girlfriend have been killed in a dune buggy accident in Qatar.
• The launch of a ‘radical but responsible’ political alliance didn’t go entirely to plan.
• Details on the number of abortions carried out in Ireland last year under new laws were made public.
• A care home for people with intellectual disabilities in Kilkenny has been de-registered at the behest of health watchdog HIQA following an inspection.
• A convicted paedophile has been jailed for sexually assaulting a one-year-old baby.
• Anti-abortion protester Bernadette Smyth has won her appeal against a conviction for harassing Belfast based abortion clinic Marie Stopes.
• A Muslim cleric has suggested that the atrocities committed last Friday can be attributed to western tourists holidaying where they and their customs aren’t welcome.
• An Irish man has died following an assault in Mexico.
• Veteran RTE presenter Liam Ó Murchú died. He was 86.

INTERNATIONAL

Alexis Tsipras preparing to go on Greek state television this evening AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#GREECE: With the troubled country heading for a default on its debts tomorrow, prime minister Alexis Tsipras is sticking to his guns and the bailout referendum he has called for next Sunday.  He has called on the Greek people to reject the referendum “with all our strength”. This evening Greece was downgraded by ratings agency S&P, who rate the chances of a Grexit at 50%.

#TUNISIA: As tourists flood home to Europe from the beleaguered nation, authorities say they have made their first arrests in connection with last Friday’s beach massacre.

#USA: David Sweat, the second killer who escaped from a New York maximum security prison, has been shot and captured by police.

INNOVATION

• Feeling the stretch in the evenings? Your day will be one second longer tomorrow…
• Listen in on an astronaut’s heartbeat… on the International Space Station. (3M)

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