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

Taoiseach Enda Kenny interacting with a man in an alien costume at the Franchise show today. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

 IRELAND

• Dublin Bus drivers were on strike again
• The man who reviewed Waterford‘s cardiac care defended his recommendations
• A man died after being found injured in Cork.
• Ex-HMV staff have been left waiting for pay as the company goes into liquidation
• The OCI said it will have completed its review into the ticket scandal in a month
• A gay couple returned to their church choir, having left after objection by a Catholic activist
• A barman was banned from speaking Irish in a Cork pub
• Tributes were paid to a champion Irish rower who died in Poland
• The brother of a woman killed in a road collision thanked locals for their kindness
• Three status yellow weather warnings were issued for seven counties.

Cable cars on Mont Blanc in France. Luca Bruno / PA Luca Bruno / PA / PA

WORLD

#FRANCE: One of the women behind the failed Paris attack this week was engaged to the man who recently killed a priest.

#SPAIN: Four people were killed and scores of people were injured after a train derailed.

#MONT BLANC: A group of more than 30 people spent the night stuck in cable cars over the Alps.

#NUCLEAR: There are grave concerns about North Korea’s nuclear testing.

#PORTUGAL: Hotels were evacuated after wildfires hit the Algarve region.

INNOVATION

• Facebook was in hot water after it deleted an iconic photo from the Vietnam war of a naked girl escaping from a napalm bombing. 
• US scientists have named a new species of parasite after Barack Obama. [Washington Post]

PARTING SHOT

If you like a good map, you’ll be drooling over this detailed map of the Netherlands.