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

The bad weather rolling over Dún Laoghaire as the sunshine comes to an end. Sam McAllister Sam McAllister

IRELAND

• A man has admitted in Dublin’s Central Criminal Court to raping and sexually assaulting his girlfriend as she slept. 
• The Anglo Irish trial has heard that former chairman Sean FitzPatrick told an employee not to submit accounts to revenue. 
• Gardaí in Galway are seeking information about missing 23-year-old man John Moyles. 
• Pro-life campaigners are not happy about an abortion pill drone coming to Ireland. 
• A bomb threat has been called in on Gerry Adams’ house in Belfast. 
• It has been found that public servants took more than two million sick days last year. 
• Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames has hit back at criticism she has received for mispronouncing ‘wifi’ in the Seanad. 
• The parents of Aoife Beary, one of the survivors of the Berkeley balcony collapse, have said they are optimistic about her recovery.

INTERNATIONAL

The Dalai Lama was today celebrating his 80th birthday. Jae C. Hong / AP/Press Association Images Jae C. Hong / AP/Press Association Images / AP/Press Association Images

#NEW YORK: The world’s oldest woman Susannah Mushatt Jones has celebrated her 116th birthday. 

#GREECE: Talks have been taking place after the country voted ‘No’ in yesterday’s referendum. 

#UNITED KINGDOM: The England Twitter account is taking a lot of heat for how it welcomed the women’s team making the semi-finals of the World Cup.

INNOVATION

• There was once going to be a Nintendo Playstation. Things didn’t quite work out. 
• Find your phone struggling in the hot weather? There is a reason behind it, according to The Guardian. 

PARTING SHOT

While Ireland seems to have got the hang of protesting over the last year or so, the French have been at it a long time. But what is it that draws out this cantankerous quality? [Vox]