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

IRELAND 

Ella Murphy O'Connor and Jimmy Norman who are being honoured at the unsung hero awards in Dublin today Naoise Culhane Naoise Culhane

• The Anti-Austerity Alliance has staged a protest outside the office of a Sinn Féin TD calling on the party to clarify its position on the issue of water charges. 
• Fresh talks are underway to prevent train strikes this coming Friday. 
• It looks like gardaí have started handing out tickets on one of Dublin’s busiest junctions.
• Security guards at a Shell gas terminal in Mayo went on strike today. 
• Michael Noonan and Alan Kelly have said there is no rift between them over rent certainty. 
• The State is set to make a €60,000 payment to the parents of a Roma child who was taken from them. 
• A woman in her 20s is in serious condition after being hit by a car in Dublin this morning. 
• UTV is selling its entire TV operation to ITV for £100 million (€135 million).
• A man has been arrested after three people were stabbed in Belfast.  
• A woman was arrested on the same Aer Lingus flight that a 25-year-old Brazilian died on yesterday. 

INTERNATIONAL 

A panda in London's chinatown ahead of the State visit next week Lauren Hurley / PA Wire Lauren Hurley / PA Wire / PA Wire

#UNITED KINGDOM:  Former BBC journalist Jacky Sutton has been found dead in Turkey. 

#CALIFORNIA: President Michael D Higgins will plant a tree in honour of the Berkeley victims. 

#ISRAEL: Tensions continue to run high in the country with a soldier shot at a bus station.  

INNOVATION 

• Facebook has introduced a new kind of notification to tell you if your account has been targeted by a government sponsored hacker. 
• In other Facebook news, users of iPhones are complaining its app causes battery drain. [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT 

Aniela McGuinness, a 32-year-old actress living in Hollywood, Florida, has made a photo exhibition about the different stages of the preventative mastectomy she has undergone. [Buzzfeed]