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

IRELAND

Joan Burton and Mairia Cahill pictured today Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Gardaí are investigating how child sex abuse allegations were leaked to the press
• A man was jailed for 18 months for having a sexual relationship with his step-sister
• A man and a woman in their 30s were killed in a two-vehicle car crash in Co Donegal
• The Garda Ombudsman is to investigate a video which appears to show a Garda striking a protester with a baton in Gorey, Co Wexford
• The stepdaughters of a man jailed for sexually abusing them have spoken about their ordeal at his hands
• The families of the students killed in the Berkeley balcony disaster are to sue over negligence
• The managing director of Roche Ireland in Co Clare had no prior warning about the decision to close the plant
• Irish producer Oisín Tymon is to sue Jeremy Clarkson and the BBC for racial discrimination
• Joan Burton has lashed ‘online warriors’ after Mairia Cahill became Labour’s latest Senator
• Construction workers were invited into David Drumm’s family home for meals, a judge has heard
• Ibrahim Halawa has spoken of the dreadful conditions in his Egyptian prison in a letter to his family
• Malahide’s Christmas Kingdom will be going ahead after all

INTERNATIONAL

Baby Nubia Soumah, the last known Ebola patient being treated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Guinea Samuel Aranda / MSF Samuel Aranda / MSF / MSF

#GERMANY: The bodies of seven babies were found at an apartment in a Bavarian town

#JIHADI JOHN: The US claims it is 99% certain that a drone strike has killed the notorious, British-accented Isis militant known as Jihadi John

#NEW YORK: An 80-year-old mobster has been acquitted of involvement in the 1978 Lufthansa heist, as depicted most famously in the movie Goodfellas

INNOVATION

• It seems the length of tv commercial breaks is set to reduce, and we have Netflix to thank (Geek.com)
• One Direction paid 1,900 times more tax in the UK last year than Facebook. Time to register as a multinational lads (i100)

PARTING SHOT

David Hasselhoff is no more. For he is now to be known as simply David Hoff. Seriously. Or so he says anyway. Okay then…