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

Olympic sailing silver medalist Annalise Murphy at her homecoming celebrations in Dun Laoghaire with Cormac Devlin pf Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. Peter Cavanagh Peter Cavanagh

IRELAND

• The website eBay is to close its Dundalk facility next year – although it’s as yet unclear to where it will be relocating.
• A police commissioner from Rio de Janeiro has defended the decision to film Pat Hickey as he was arrested in Brazil.
• Hickey’s wife has left Rio de Janeiro, as the former OCI chief attempts to move from Bangu prison to house arrest.
• The Medical Council referred 23 doctors to supports for substance abuse issues last year, according to its annual report.
• Gardaí have seized up to €2 million worth of drugs in the past week, the latest coming in raids in Dublin and Meath yesterday and today.
• There were 2.3 million journeys made on public bike schemes so far in 2016.
• A 13-year-old boy has been held at knifepoint by a burglar in Limerick.
• A charismatic dog that its own RTÉ career has been found following a public appeal.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during a pre-hustings rally at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow today. Jane Barlow / PA Jane Barlow / PA / PA

INTERNATIONAL

#SWEEHEART: The US Treasury said the European Commission’s probe into claimed sweetheart deals for firms like Apple, Amazon and Starbucks “undermines the international tax system”.

#ITALY: The death toll from a powerful earthquake in central Italy climbed to at least 247 overnight.

#CIARÓG EILE: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage have held a joint campaign meeting in Mississippi.

#ENDURANCE: A hiker has been found alive in a remote mountain hut one month after going missing in New Zealand.

INNOVATION

• This tiny robot octopus is powered by its own gas.
• A Pokémon Go-related car accident has killed a woman in Japan.

PARTING SHOT

Donald Trump is supported by many types of voters, but perhaps the most peculiar is that of the ‘alt-right’ political philosophy. [Vox]

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