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

Gardaí and anti-water charges protesters involved in a minor scuffle outside the gates of Leinster House today Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• The Garda Commissioner broke her silence on allegations to do with the recent O’Higgins Report and came under serious criticism in the Dáil. 
• There were calls for emergency legislation after it emerged that Ulster Bank would be selling off 900 distressed home mortgages.
• Luas strikes and strikes at Tesco stores scheduled for tomorrow were both called off.
• Gardaí appealed for the public’s help in tracing the movements of a car used by the gunmen after the shooting of Gareth Hutch.
• The Taoiseach corrected the Dáil record in relation to the resignation of Alan Shatter in 2014.

WORLD

An urban fox cub emerges from its den to look for food near Tynemouth on North Tyneside in England. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#SWEDEN: A Stockholm District Court court maintained a European arrest warrant against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over a 2010 rape allegation, rejecting his lawyers’ request to have it lifted.

#HAWAII: An Irish man was among five people who died when a skydiving plane crashed in Hawaii.

INNOVATION

• Here’s how you can make the image quality better on Netflix.
• We looked at whether people in rural areas should pay more for their broadband.

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