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

IRELAND

Sam Boal Sam Boal

• Post mortems are underway this evening on the bodies of two brothers who were found dead in their Sligo home. Brandon Skeffington (9) was found with stab wounds while his older brother, Shane, (21) was found dead in a shed outside. 
• Frank Flannery says he is holding his options open as regards pursuing legal action over the PAC’s inquiry into Rehab. The former Fine Gael strategist also described the party’s local election campaign as “one of the worst I ever saw“. 
• A motorcyclist has been killed after a road crash in Wicklow. 
• A mum-of-four from Tyrone was killed after she was struck by a car while on holidays in Bulgaria. 
• The third day of searching for the missing Irish man who was surfing in Australia has concluded. 
• A woman in her sixties has died after falling into the water on Lough Derg yesterday morning. 
• The reclusive founder of Aldi, Karl Albrecht, has died today aged 94.
• Three books of condolence opened in Dublin today for the victims of the Malaysia Airlines disaster. 
• Ireland is providing €500,000 in humanitarian aid to Gaza. 

INTERNATIONAL 

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#GAZA: Israel shelled a hospital this afternoon, killing five people and wounding at least 70. Nine members of the same family were killed in an earlier air-strike.

#MALAYSIA AIRLINES: A bereaved father has written a letter to the people responsible for the shooting down of flight MH17, in which his daughter was killed.

#TAIWAN: The parents of the Taiwan attack suspect have said “although he is our child…he should be sentenced to death“.

INNOVATION 

It has been 45 years since television audiences witnessed man’s first steps on the moon. Here’s how it was reported. [TheJournal.ie]

Netflix is testing ways to hide your embarrassing viewing history so you can indulge in guilty pleasures without the fear of getting caught. [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT 

Here’s pictures of what the sunken Costa Concordia looks like after two years underwater. [Business Insider]

Originally posted 9:00pm.

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