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

IRELAND

Staff and volunteers at this years KWD Recycling County Clean Up Day on Inch Beach, Dingle Peninsula, today Valerie O'Sullivan Valerie O'Sullivan

• A draft proposal to cut 120 driving jobs at Bus Éireann is now on the table at the Workplace Relations Commission.
• An act of vandalism saw paint thrown at a 1916 memorial in Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery.
• A Wexford father-of-three has died following a domestic accident involving an incinerator.
• Fianna Fáil may not support a new Fine Gael Taoiseach if the water charges debacle is not resolved.
• Easter weekend’s weather is set to be something of a mixture, or ‘cold, breezy, mild and dry’ to be precise.
• Blanchardstown centre’s vacancies are at near-recession levels after its €945 million sale.
• A massive search has failed to find the two missing Rescue 116 crewmen, Ciarán Smith and Paul Ormsby.

WORLD

Supreet Kaur, the Indian newsreader who delivered the breaking news of her own husband's death in a traffic accident Twitter Twitter

#TENSIONS RISING: The US moved a Navy strike group in a show of force against North Korea.

#EGYPT: The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a series of bombings on Palm Sunday in Egypt which have killed at least 44 people.

#INDIA: An Indian news presenter read the breaking news of her own husband’s death.

#STOCKHOLM: A second suspect has been arrested in the Swedish city following Friday’s truck attack, which left four people, including one Briton, dead.

PARTING SHOT

ICYMI, Alec Baldwin’s turn as Bill O’Reilly talking to Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live is a treat.

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