Updated 22:56

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

File photo of Enda Kenny and Alan Shatter arriving at Leinster House (Image: Julien Behal/PA).

IRELAND

• Cabinet members expressed support for Minister Alan Shatter today as opposition TDs continued to call for his resignation.
• A teenager died in a Limerick work accident and a man was crushed to death by a JCB digger in Dublin.
• Armed raiders made of with a sum of money from a Permanent TSB in Dublin.
• Ryanair said claims that passengers were locked on a flight are ‘untrue’ after a video from one angry customer on the plane went viral.
• Teachers will hold lunchtime protests at school gates to show opposition to the new Junior Cycle.
• There will be dole cuts for long-term unemployed people who refuse to work in local authorities.
• 132 new jobs were announced for Dublin and Galway.
• Police in Antrim had a DNA breakthrough in the case of a baby boy’s death in 1984.

WORLD

#UKRAINE: The opposition in the Ukraine has agreed to a deal to end the violence that tore the country apart. [AFP]

#VENEZUELA: The military will send additional troops to the border region as the conflict between protesters and police has escalated. [The Guardian]

#FRANCE: An ex-cop was released from custody over the killing of three members of a family and a cyclist in the French Alps in 2012. [AFP]

#MASSACHUSETTS: An Irish nanny has had a bail request denied by a judge in the US.

INNOVATION

Google‘s latest project is a smartphone that maps everything around it with 3D sensors.
This real-time map provides us with a neat way of tracking the rate at which we destroy the world’s forests. [Gizmodo]

PARTING SHOT

Meryl Streep or God – who do you think has been thanked more in Oscar speeches? [Slate]

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