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

Julia Cordero from Marino (age 4) at the launch of the Dublin Kite Festival 2015. Conor McCabe Conor McCabe

IRELAND

• Missing files revealed the Siteserv writedown was €9 million more than we previously thought.
• Enda Kenny made his first public comments since the IBRC controversy.
• The country’s first automated red light camera was launched this morning.
• The Minister for Justice has opted for an independent investigation into the suicide of Garda Sergeant Michael Galvin.
• FIFA said that the $5 million payment to the FAI after the Henry handball incident was a loan.
• Investigations have been launched into the death of an elderly woman at Dublin hospital.
• A Fine Gael councillor who sent a letter to members received one back telling her to “get the queers to vote for you”.
• A man appeared in court accused of raping a homeless woman.
• Halawa sisters said Charlie Flanagan has blocked them on Twitter.

WORLD

Serena Williams of the U.S. cools off with a towel in her semifinal match of the French Open tennis tournament against Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland. Francois Mori Francois Mori

#GLASGOW: Police located a woman they sought as a potential witness in the Karen Buckley investigation.

#USA: A woman-only college in the US will now accept transgender women,

#GREECE: The country is going to miss its IMF payment, but says it will pay it by July.

#UK: The BBC is trying to woo back Richard Hammond and James May in ‘multimillion pound deal’.

INNOVATION

• Here’s how celebrities faces would look if the fit the golden ratio. [Wired.com]
• Global warming. It hasn’t gone anywhere. [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

The DailyEdge and TheJournal.ie were among a few to sample “Europe’s largest wooden rollercoaster” which is situated in Meath. Here’s what we learned. [DailyEdge]