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

A seven-week-old Labrador, with her sisters and brothers who fell asleep after playing around at the launch of a pioneering programme involving the Prison Service and charity Dogs for the Disabled. More details at www.dogsforthedisabled.ie. Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRISH

• A report into the CRC found that the organisation set up its charitable arm just to get as much money as possible from the HSE.
• The Taoiseach said a Fianna Fáil deputy writing to a judge was a “direct intervention in the administration of justice“.
• Alan Shatter blasted the Guerin report for ‘completely failing to follow fair procedure’.
• The first meeting of the banking inquiry took place.
• Jereon Dijsselbloem said that while retroactive recapitalisation of Irish banks was possible, it was politically “difficult”. [RTÉ News]
• Siptu announced that ambulance crews are to be balloted for industrial action.
• The Police Ombudsman found no evidence that the RUC was involved in an attack on Gerry Adams in 1984.
• A motorcyclist died in a crash in Dublin.
• The jobs of 160 workers at a quarry are in limbo after the plant entered receivership.
• Paying back the state is the ‘constant focus’ of AIB, the bank’s chairman said.

WORLD

A couple sunbathe on Broadstairs beach in Kent, the United Kingdom. Chris Radburn / PA Wire Chris Radburn / PA Wire / PA Wire

#CAMBODIA: The number of workers fleeing Thailand soared to more than 200,000. [AFP]

#GERMANY: A potholer trapped 3,300ft underground for 12 days was rescued. [BBC News]

#IRAQ: The United States said it could deploy as many as 300 military advisers to help the Iraqi army.

#UKRAINE: Separatists and Ukrainian troops continued fighting after a ceasefire was refused. [Reuters]

#UNITED STATES: An 89-year-old was arrested for alleged war crimes as a teenage Nazi guard at Auschwitz.

INNOVATION

• A Canadian court ordered Google to remove all links relating to a specific company.
• Doubt was cast on a study of gravitational waves, previously said to be the discovery of the century. [New Scientist]
• Blackberry surprised everyone by making a profit.
• It was almost the end of life as we know it – Facebook was down for a while.

PARTING SHOT

Researchers have recorded bats singing in a similar way to songbirds. Listen to their calls here. [Science]

Originally published 9pm