Updated 23.20pm

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

Pro Choice Protester Aoibheann McShane from Ashtown takes an abortion pill. Sam Boal Sam Boal

IRELAND

• Pro-choice activists swallowed abortion pills at Dublin’s Connolly Station.
• Bus, train and Luas ticket prices will all rise next year.
• A Dublin language school temporarily closed due to its “weak financial situation“.
• Three valuable Irish paintings have been stolen.
• Kathleen and Jimmy Cuddihy were laid to rest in Donegal.
• Lydia Foy settled her transgender birth cert case against the State.
• There were calls for a family court to be set up as soon as possible.
• The weekend closure of the Jack Lynch tunnel was labelled a ‘disaster’.
• Supervalu is close to becoming Irish shoppers’ favourite supermarket.
• A massive fire at Dublin’s old motor tax office was brought under control.
• Rats are being disrupted from drains due to the rise in construction.
• The water supply of Irish troops in the Golan Heights has been tested amid E Coli claims.
• The ECB will soon decide if the Jean-Claude Trichet/Brian Lenihan letter from 2010 will be released.
• A Labour Minister opened up about being bullied at school.

INTERNATIONAL

Locals leave flowers at the scene in the Clayton area of Bradford, after four people were found dead. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#UK: The bodies of a couple and their teen daughters were found in a home in Bradford.

#SCOTLAND: A man has been told by a European Court that being naked in public is not a freedom of his expression.

#ROME: Pope Francis has backed the evolution theory.

#ISRAEL: Ireland has joined international criticism of Israel’s plans to build 1,000 new settler homes in Jerusalem.

INNOVATION

• Want to make the perfect cocktail? B4RM4N connects to your phone using Bluetooth and will tell you exactly what to do. [Techcrunch.com]
• Here’s why the iPod Classic was axed by Apple. [Mashable]

PARTING SHOT

The Rosetta spacecraft has captured these up close and personal photos of a comet. [Geek.com]

First published 21.00pm

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