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

IRELAND

Nadia Forde at a birthday celebration for the Odeon Cinema, Charlestown Leon Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leon Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Simon Coveney and Katherine Zappone answered questions about the budget for TheJournal.ie
• Jobs Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor says that gardaí can no longer be required to work without rest or meal breaks
• 900,000 cigarettes were seized at Dublin Airport
• Politicians have come under fire for getting a €5,000 ‘pay rise’
• A stolen dog was reunited with its owner after being found on sale at a fair
• A Michelin Star-winning Dublin restaurant is booked out until Autumn 2017
• Artist Kevin Sharkey has been ordered to pay €5,000 damages over a tweet claiming that a Kerry man was racist
• Four child sex abuse survivors who took their own lives last year were waiting for treatment
• With the cost of cigarettes increasing once more in the budget, TheJournal.ie took to the streets to ask Irish people how much they think a pack of 20 should cost
• The Dáil heard that the ‘preventable’ death of a young student by a hit-and-run driver was ‘due to multiple Garda failings’
• Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan faced a grilling from the Dáil Justice Committee
• Paschal Donohoe has been tipped to become Fine Gael leader by Michael Noonan
• A Dublin school is to hold a meeting after clowns entered the school grounds and ‘terrified’ students
• CCTV footage caught a 4×4 jeep pulling down the gates at a level crossing
• Sham marriages are widespread in Ireland according to an Immigrant Council report
• Michael Noonan put Pearse Doherty in his place for referring to his age on RTÉ’s Prime Time discussion of the budget

WORLD

Barack Obama speaking at a Clinton campaign event in North Carolina Carolyn Kaster Carolyn Kaster

#OBAMA: The US president has given his first reaction to Donald Trump’s groping remarks, describing them as “repugnant”

#KARDASHIAN: French police have opened an investigation into the armed robbery of reality tv star Kim Kardashian

#PARIS: The lawyers of Salah Abeslam have given up the suspected Paris attacker’s case

#SCOTLAND: The man who stabbed and killed teenager Paige Doherty has been sentenced to 27 years in prison

INNOVATION

• In the wake of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 controversy, here’s why lithium ion batteries catch fire [Techradar]
• BMW’s motorcycle of the future doesn’t require a helmet [Engadget]

PARTING SHOT

All this week Place is running a series on the biggest slums in existence around the world, with 360-degree camera views, drone footage, interviews, and reportage from some of the largest unofficial developments on the planet.

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