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

Aerial Images captured by Air Corps personnel while on a recce of the areas affected by recent flooding in Ballydavid area. Department of Defence / RollingNews.ie Department of Defence / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• A body was found in the search for missing Clare man Michael Bugler.
• Flood alerts remain in place following heavy rain.
• Builders downed tools as protesters occupied buildings on Moore Street.
• Enda Kenny and Micheál Martin spent all day having a go at each other.
• Leo Varadkar was grilled on the health crisis.
• One person was hospitalised after a crash between a car and a Luas in Dublin.
• There was another drop in the number of people signing on.
• Seven food businesses were ordered to close last month.

Starving children in the besieged town of Madaya in Syria. MEdicalSAMS MEdicalSAMS

WORLD

#PARIS: A man wearing a fake suicide vest was shot dead by police.

#LONDON: A former Eastenders actor whose body was found along with those of her two sons this week died from head and neck injuries.

#SYRIA: Shocking footage emerged of starving children trapped in a besieged town with reports of residents surviving on weeds and dirt.

#CONFLICT: South Korea is to resume propaganda broadcasts into North Korea in response to a nuclear test. [BBC]

#AUSTRIA: A pensioner’s body was found with his wife’s head encased in concrete.

INNOVATION

• Oculus Rift apologised for its VR headset being pricier than expected.
• Two second year students from Limerick invented an air-conditioning system for bees.

PARTING SHOT

A traffic camera in Montreal captured some gorgeous shots of a snowy owl in flight. [Gizmodo]

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