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

Holles Street. (Pic: Joe Dunne/Photocall Ireland)

IRELAND

• Abortion laws not yet in place after reports the first termination under the act was carried out.
• Investigate into ‘outrageous breach of patient confidentiality’ at Holles Street.
• Two-year-old boy drowns in Waterford beach “freak accident”
• Dozens of current and former staff at IBRC affected by a data breach.
• The Insolvency Service of Ireland is to begin taking applications in two weeks.
• Man’s body found in waste truck in Dublin
• Leslie Ross, 66, charged with killing two women in Dromore.
• Irish mortgage holders are over €2 billion in arrears.
• McCollum Connolly and Reid sent to notoriously dangerous prison in Lima.
• No update on status of Halawa siblings held in Egypt.
• Truck driver in his 50s killed in Offaly road crash.
• Kildare Village outlet expansion to create 380 retail jobs.
• A fifth of racist incidents in Ireland happen in the workplace.
• Replacing child benefit with school attendance payment would save €100m says TD.
• Five teens rescued by RNLI after dinghy is swept away in Cork.
• Well-off ‘more likely to have cervical cancer screening’ – except in Northern Ireland.
• It’s National Potato Day! Here are seven interesting facts about the spud.

INTERNATIONAL

#SHETLAND ISLANDS Fifteen rescued after helicopter with 18 on board crashes in the sea.
#TEXAS Fort Hood shooter found guilty, and faces death penalty.
#INDIA Five men gang-raped a photojournalist, 23, in Mumbai last night.
#LEBANON Car bombs have killed at least 27 people and wounded over 350.
#SYRIA Obama says the country ‘will require America’s attention’.
#SYRIA Not too sure what’s happening there? Here’s an explainer.
#BELGIUM Raids across three countries uncovers ecstasy pills worth €1.3bn.
#OHIO Man comes back to life 45 minutes after his heart stopped. [DailyEdge.ie]

INNOVATION

• These patterns seem like they are moving but it’s all an optical illusion. [Smithsonian.com]
• Microsoft shares surge after CEO Steve Ballmer announces he’s quitting.

PARTING SHOT

This couple celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary by taking the same CIE bus tour they met on 51 years ago. [DailyEdge.ie]

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