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

IRISH 

Fossetts performers at Tayto Park earlier this evening Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Rent supplement is set to increase in rural and urban areas from this Friday. 
• Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald has said the charity regulator is seeking assurances that robust governance is in place at scandal-hit charity Console. 
• Greyhound Waste customers will have to opt out of bin charges. 
• Shane Lowry has become the third Irish golfer to pull out of the Rio Olympics. 
• Newstalk has announced an entirely new lineup of presenters. 
• A garda has been awarded €30,000 after being hit on the head with a stone ‘the size of a melon’. 
• A man has been charged in Dublin after being caught with 11kg of cocaine concealed in four seemingly empty rucksacks. 
• A Fianna Fáil TD has apologised for asking how many Muslims have applied for Irish passports. 

WORLD 

A supporter holding up a sign at a pro-EU rally in Trafalgar Square earlier this afternoon Nick Ansell / PA Wire Nick Ansell / PA Wire / PA Wire

#BREXIT: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has lost a motion of no confidence from his own MPs by 40 to 172. 

#ISTANBUL: There have been explosions and gunshots at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, officials have said.

#MANCHESTER: Police in the United Kingdom have arrested two men and a youth after a hate incident on a tram earlier this morning.

INNOVATION 

• Microsoft has paid a woman $10,000 after forcing her to update to Windows 10 (the operating system caused her computer to slow down and crash regularly). 
• Innovative new building blocks could help children learn how to code without sitting in front of a PC. 

PARTING SHOT 

It’s controversial, but our friends over at the Daily Edge have called it – black pudding beats out white. Do you agree? Go and vent your spleen in their comments section. [Daily Edge]