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

IRELAND

Dignitaries arrive in Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance as a weekend of commemoration for the 1916 Rising got under way. Cpl Neville Coughlan of the Defence Forces Press Office Cpl Neville Coughlan of the Defence Forces Press Office

• President Higgins got the Rising commemorations underway
• Travel restrictions for the events came into place
• Two men were charged with a gun find in Meath
• Michael Healy Rae said there should be a Minister for Rural Affairs
• A man was charged in connection to a carjacking in Monaghan
• The country reacted to seeing Marty Morrissey in 1916 garb
• Irish people were being asked to prepare for the 2016 Census

INTERNATIONAL

People stop and look at floral tributes at a memorial site at the Place de la Bourse in Brussels. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#BRUSSELS: A march against fear was cancelled as the country charged a man thought to be the third suicide bomber in Tuesday’s attacks on the Belgian capital.

#NORTH KOREA: North Korea released a new propaganda video showing a submarine-launched nuclear missile laying waste to Washington and concluding with the US flag in flames.

#CUBA: The Rolling Stones played to half a million people in Cuba, one of the first western acts to do so.

INNOVATION

• Microsoft pulled a chat bot because the internet taught it to be racist.
• Here are some apps worth downloading this week.

PARTING SHOT

Justin Trudeau’s visit to the US made American media fall in love with him a little bit. This interview with Vox in which he talks equality, parenting, feminism and his sex-symbol status shows why.

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