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

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IRELAND

• Bertie Ahern appeared at the banking inquiry today, and here’s what he had to say
• A trial was told that a client killed a sex worker because she was blackmailing him
• A man was arrested over a helicopter crash at a Longford pub
• A man in his 20s was arrested over the rape of a teenage girl
• Joan Burton and Mary Lou McDonald clashed in the Dáil 
• The daughter of missing woman Breda Delaney has spoken of the intense search for her
• The father in the Roscommon ‘House of Horrors’ case will spend less time in jail
• An Irish sprinter is claiming a ‘miscarriage of justice’ after being banned for doping
• Niamh Nic Dhomhnaill said that she has “heard nothing” from the DPP about her rapist’s sentence
• Someone jumbled up the letters on the Grand Canal Docks sign, making it rather rude

INTERNATIONAL

A Gentoo penguin chick on Penguin Rock at Edinburgh Zoo is fed by is mother after a successful breeding season which saw sixteen penguin chicks being born, with the first born on May 4. Andrew Milligan Andrew Milligan

#GERMANY Angela Merkel made a Palestinian girl who’s facing deportation cry – and the video has gone viral

#SPAIN A mother was arrested for dumping a baby boy in a bin

#GREECE The EU okayed a vote by the Greek parliament – and people began calling for a boycott of German goods

#USA Obama weighed in on the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby

#AUSTRALIA The body of a young child was found in a suitcase in bushland. An elderly man is being sought.

INNOVATION

• A video showing a homemade drone firing a pistol has appeared on YouTube. [The Guardian]
• Everyone’s fascinated with the Nasa New Horizons Pluto probe – here are 11 pretty amazing facts about it. [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

Ethan Zachery Scott is colour blind – but things changed when his fiancé gave him a new type of sunglasses to try on. (Note: There’s a bit of profanity as the gets overexcited by what he can see) Can’t see the video? Click here.