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

IRISH

This is what will eventually be Europe's largest inverted rollercoaster today in Tayto Park Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• A legal dispute between Rory McIlroy and his former management was settled out of court.
• The Lotto was cancelled due to a technical glitch.
• Access to an expensive life-saving drug, Soliris, was extended.
• An orange weather warning is in place.
• A man died after he was hit by a bus in Offaly.
• The unemployment rate fell, but not for under 25s, so…
• New internship schemes for young adults were announced.
• The Taoiseach defended making Alan Shatter aware of the terms of reference for the garda malpractice inquiry.
• A man died after falling from a window at the Mater hospital.
• Eircom announced a massive apprentice scheme.
• Two arrests were made in a 2012 murder investigation.
• Stena Line cancelled its Dún Laoghaire – Holyhead summer route.
• Ulster Bank cut mortgage rates.
• Speculation was rife over who will play Croke Park this summer.

WORLD

#AFRICA: The number of new Ebola cases has increased. [BBC News]

#ARGENTINA: A prosecutor found dead last month had an arrest warrant for the country’s president.

#AUSTRALIA: Five Irish men were charged as part of an investigation into a home repair scam.

#GREECE: The ECB cut off vital funding.

#TAIWAN: At least 22 people died in a plane crash.

#UNITED KINGDOM: Rotherham council is to be taken over by the government following a sex abuse probe.

#UNITED STATES: Two brothers were arrested over the shooting of an off-duty garda.

INNOVATION

• Instagram introduced endless looping.
• Google Earth is now free.
• Quantum computing could provide secure cloud services. [New Scientist]
• A new method of delivering drugs into tumours using electric fields has been developed. [Science]

PARTING SHOT

Is your phone always running out of battery? Maybe you need a pocket-sized gas generator. [Geek.com]