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

An agreement was made on the Greyhound strike today. Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• Plans to close courthouses in parts of Dublin were shelved.
• Greyhound workers have voted to end a 14-week lockout.
• A taxi driver said he was lucky he wasn’t killed in an attack.
• There was a possible sighting of missing Tom Kennedy hailing a taxi on the night he went missing.
• Charles Haughey’s family are “deeply disappointed” over claims he was beaten with an iron bar.
• Almost 3,000 children are waiting a year for speech and language therapy.
• Murders, thefts and drug offences are up, new figures show.
• A young man was killed in a motorbike crash in Carlow.
• Farmers brought a Grim Reaper to an Aldi store over vegetable prices.
• The inquest into the death of Dhara Kivlehan, who died after giving birth at Sligo Hospital, has begun in Sligo. [RTE.ie]
• The family of killed Michael Dwyer said they were “followed and intimidated” while in Bolivia.
• The Government says it’s not protecting the wrong 1916 house on Moore Street.
• Protesters blocked Joan Burton’s car from leaving an event at a Dublin school.
• The €87m EuroMillions ticket was sold in Dublin.
• Dublin City Council voted to cut the Local Property Tax by 15%.

INTERNATIONAL

Edinburgh Zoo's giant panda Tian Tian who is no longer pregnant, the zoo has announced. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#UN Actress Emma Watson gave a powerful speech about feminism at the UN.

#LONDON Police have begun searching a canal as they try to locate a missing teenager.

#NORWAY Desmond Tutu has called on Norwegians to forgive mass murderer Andres Breivik.

#UKRAINE Rebels say they’re read to carry out their side of a peace deal… but ‘with great difficulty’

#UK Retail giant Tesco admitted to making a €300 million “overstatement” in its finances.

#SYRIA More than 130,000 Syrian Kurds have now crossed into Turkey to flee Islamic State.

INNOVATION

• The Oculus Rift is one step closer to its official release – here’s its new prototype headset. [TheJournal.ie]

PARTING SHOT

Student Emma Sulkowicz says she was sexually assaulted on campus, and was shocked to see the alleged culprit being found not responsible. So she has begun a unique project, called Carry That Weight, to bring her message to college authorities. [New York Times]