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

IRELAND

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• Families who have had their discretionary medical card revoked already have been told today that they will not be getting them back. 
• Two informants have told IBRC that the Quinn family have over €500 million hidden away. 
• An off duty garda managed to apprehend an armed raider after a bank robbery in Drogheda this afternoon. 
• Gardaí have checked 74,500 vehicles for speeding today. The highest speed recorded was 130km in Sligo. 
• Michael O’Leary has said that Aer Lingus cabin crew are “among the most protected and least overworked groups in Ireland”. It comes as the staff hold a 24 hour strike in a row over rosters. 
• The most popular baby names for 2013 have been revealed. WARNING: They haven’t changed much!

INTERNATIONAL 

Protest against the gang rape and murder of two teenage girls. Manish Swarup Manish Swarup

INDIA: Two teen sisters were gang raped and hung from a tree. Two of the four men arrested in relation to the murders are police officers.

MALAYSIAN FLIGHT: No debris has been found where underwater pings were detected in the Indian Ocean.

AMERICA: Obama’s press secretary has quit. Obama described Jay Carney as one of his closest friends and a great press secretary.

INNOVATION 

• A court has ruled that people have the right to have links to information about them deleted from Google searches. [TheJournal.ie]
• UPC are going to become a mobile operator in Ireland in 2015. [TheJournal.ie]

PARTING SHOT 

The swastika is the oldest symbol in the world. Here’s a look at it’s history before World War II.