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

Sealions in their new habitat at Dublin Zoo today. Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• The Dáil heard new claims about Denis O’Brien’s dealings with IBRC.
• A 25-year-old man died following an assault in Dublin.
• Gerry Adams was cleared of withholding information on his niece’s abuse.
• John Delaney told TDs he has little to add to what he has already said publicly about FIFA’s controversial €5 million payment to the FAI.
• An man in his 60s was killed in a road traffic incident.
• The funeral was held of a young boy who took his own life after posting photos online.
• The two men challenging the marriage referendum result pressed on with their court proceedings.
• Tusla defended its decision to withdraw funding from the Rape Crisis Network.
• The UN asked Ireland why the government has not organised a referendum on abortion, while a new report finds 177,000 women left Ireland for abortions since 1971.
• Gardaí have appealed for help in finding a missing teenager in Waterford.

Members of the media evacuate the White House. Associated Press Associated Press

WORLD

#USA: A bomb scare was phoned into the White House.

#LOUISIANA: An inmate who has spent over 40 years in solidarity confinement has been freed.

#AUSTRALIA: Eighteen people were injured after a car ploughed into a café.

INNOVATION

• Here’s what we learnt from Apple’s major keynote last night.
• A parachute has failed during a Nasa test of new technology for landing larger spacecraft and eventually astronauts on Mars. [BBC]

PARTING SHOT

Read here about a rich developer convicted of flipping houses being ordered by a judge to live in one of the neighbourhoods he helped ruin as part of his community service. [Cleveland.com]