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

A staged breathalyser test in Dublin today, as part of the RSA and gardaí's road safety campaign for the coming bank holiday RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Two former Anglo Irish Bank executives have been found guilty of conspiring to defraud the Irish public.
• The truth about the Birmingham Six bombings could soon be heard.
• A man charged in connection with the murder of Gareth Hutch has been denied bail.
• Gardaí from a new task force may be sent to Spain to target the Kinahan cartel.
• Cystic Fibrosis sufferers are angry over a lack of funding for a potentially life-changing drug.
• Alcohol was a factor in 330 fatal road collisions in four years.
• A man has been arrested in connection with a shooting in Cork.
• A strange looking Arctic whale has surfaced in Irish waters for the first time.
• Alan Kelly says he’s been proven right about Irish Water.
• Spanish police are investigating a report that an Irish teenager was raped in Tenerife.
• Temperatures are to stay higher than normal right up until the start of the Leaving Cert.

WORLD

Former Miss Turkey Merve Buyuksarac, who has been jailed for criticising her country's president Emrah Gurel Emrah Gurel

#LONDON: A serial English paedophile, who once authored a child-sex ‘manual’, faces a life sentence.

#TURKEY: A former Miss Turkey has been jailed for criticising President Recep Erdogan.

#AUSTRALIA: A surfer is in a critical condition after his leg was bitten off by a shark.

#GERMANY: Three people have been arrested after 26 women reported sexual assaults at a music festival.

#EGYPTAIR: Signals from a doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month have been picked up.

#CALIFORNIA: Two people have been killed in a murder-suicide shooting at a university in the west-coast state.

INNOVATION

• Without anything like Google’s budget, these Waterford students created a self-driving car.
• Samsung is warning its users from updating to Windows 10. Not because there’s anything wrong with it, but because their computers may not be able to handle it. [Geek]

PARTING SHOT

Everyone’s favourite preposterously-accented Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger had a close encounter with a charging elephant, which he duly posted to Instagram.

As the ex-governor of California so eloquently put it afterwards: “Some people then needed to change their pants.” Don’t ever change Arnie.

schwarzenegger / Instagram

On Snapchat: We had a sneak preview of some of the more… unusual gardens at Bloom in the Phoenix Park. Check out our story to see them.

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