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

Garda at the scene at Avondale House Flats in North Cumberland Street where Gareth Hutch was seriously injured after being shot. He died later at hospital. Sam Boal Sam Boal

• Gareth Hutch, the nephew of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, was shot in a flat complex in inner city Dublin and later died – the latest victim in an ongoing gangland feud.
• An unofficial strike took place at the Poolbeg incinerator in Dublin over the laying off of three workers – it was later resolved.
• A series of bomb hoaxes caused primary schools across the country to be evacuated.
• Tesco workers across 70 stores in Ireland announced that they would be going on strike.

WORLD

Riot police present in an oil refinery in France after protesters blockaded it Claude Paris / PA Images Claude Paris / PA Images / PA Images

#GREECE: Egyptian forensics officials collected DNA from relatives of the EgyptAir MS804 victims to help identify body parts retrieved from the Mediterranean, as the search for the Airbus A320′s two black boxes continued.

#FRANCE: French police reopened an oil refinery after protesters blockaded it, causing gasoline shortages around the country.

#UNITED STATES: Bill Cosby will stand trial for sexual assault charges.

INNOVATION

• Google has a creepy new plan to help kill off the password. 
• Check out some water droplets being vapourised by an ultrapower X-ray laser.

PARTING SHOT

It’s rock musician Bob Dylan’s 75th birthday. Check out one of his great performances of from 1975 on the famed Rolling Thunder tour.

Then read this brilliant profile of the iconic musician from 1964 (via The New Yorker)