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

L to R: Mick Blanche and Patricia Rogers at the Famine Memorial at the IFSC in Dublin. They completed a dramatic re-enactment of one of the most brutal and poignant chapters of the Irish Famine where 1,490 people from Strokestown in Co. Roscommon walked 155 km to Dublin and were then transported to Liverpool Leah Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leah Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• Mick Wallace and Clare Daly were found guilty of entering a restricted area at Shannon airport
• A body was found at a house in Limerick
• 10,000 signed a petition calling for a same-sex marriage mural not to be removed
• Heavily redacted documents about the IBRC’s sale of Siteserv were released
• What is Siteserv? Here’s our explainer
• Irish teens have been warned over the ‘Kylie Jenner lip challenge’
• A woman accused of assisting a suicide was left a third of the deceased’s estate 
• Enda Kenny called Gerry Adams the ultimate hypocrite 
• Tom Meagher cried for hours when he heard what happened to Karen Buckley
• A woman who dropped her trousers at prison has sued the State 
• Here’s what you need to know about changes to health insurance 
• Psychiatric nurses refused to work in Galway University Hospital this morning 

INTERNATIONAL

Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has a selfie taken as he meets Labour supporters in Ipswich while on the campaign trail PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#PARIS A terror suspect was arrested after accidentally shooting himself

#UK Three men were arrested over the murder of missing chef Claudia Lawrence

#NEW ZEALAND The Prime Minister of NZ apologised for pulling a waitress’s ponytail

#AUSTRALIA A lifestyle blogger admitted she didn’t have the terminal brain cancer she said she had cured through diet

#BOSTON A photo of Boston bombing accused Dzhokhar Tsarnaev giving the middle finger to a camera has been released

#USA A woman fired a gun at McDonald’s when she didn’t get bacon in her burger 

INNOVATION

• Smartphone always running out of power? Here’s why. [TheJournal.ie]
• Gamer? Here are the 11 most overrated games of all time, apparently. [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

English man Paul Mason lost 65olbs – but was left with lots of excess skin. Now, thanks to the kindness of strangers, he will get that skin removed. [The New York Times]

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