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

Aer Lingus plane takes off at Dublin Airport. (PA Image)

IRELAND

• Tributes have been paid to Northern Ireland’s richest man who died in a helicopter crash.
• Aer Lingus is suing SIPTU over the union’s threatened strike.
• More creches are under investigation by the HSE.
• Staff at a Cork hospital say they’re concerned about a woman who left without being formally discharged.
• The family of Mark Casey who went missing a week ago have appealed for any information which might reveal what happened to him.
• Enda Kenny gave his annual St. Patrick’s Day message.
• It could be the end of one and two cent coins following a trial scheme in Wexford.
• The CEO of the Quinn packaging plant that was set on fire last night said employees were in building at the time.
• Nearly 4,000 Canadian visas were snapped up by Irish people in ten minutes.
• Dublin off licences have been urged not to sell booze before 4pm on Paddy’s Day.

The wreckage of a helicopter in Norfolk where four people were killed including, Dr Edward Haughey. (PA Image)

WORLD

#NEW YORK: An eighth body was recovered from the Manhattan apartment buildings destroyed in a gas explosion.

#MALAYSIAN AIRLINES: The US Navy sent in another ship to search for the missing liner.

#CRIMEA: Last-ditch talks between US and Russia on Crimea ended in failure.

INNOVATION

• For the first time ever galaxy watchers may have a front-row look at a massive black hole consuming a gas cloud. [Wired.com]
• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has unveiled a robot fish that it claims can change direction almost as fast as the real thing. [MIT]

PARTING SHOT

Here’s what Glenn Ford did after he was released from prison this week after serving 26 years for a murder he did not commit. [The Atlantic]

Originally published 9pm

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