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

Pictured enjoying the sunny weather at Dollymount Strand today are Kevin Power, with Amelia Scott-Power (3 and a half) and Nathan Scott-Power (2 and a half). /Photocall Ireland /Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• One man has been killed and another critically injured after apparently being overcome with fumes while working on a drainage system.
• The terms of reference in to the commission of investigation into IBRC was passed.
• A Dáil committee found that Catherine Murphy did not breach or abuse her parliamentary privilege when making comments regarding Denis O’Brien.
• The trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank officials was adjourned after the court ran out of jurors.
• A teenager is in critical condition after an accident on the River Shannon.
• Paul Murphy said most people haven’t paid their water charges bill.
• Cars look set to be banned from Dublin city centre under radical new plans.
• Inmates at Mountjoy formed a human pyramid to help a prisoner retrieve drugs from netting placed over a prison yard.
• The High Court approved a settlement of €2.4m to a seven-year-old girl who suffered brain damage as a baby. [RTÉ]
• Gardaí arrested 60 heroin dealers as part of a major drugs operation.
• Politicians decided not to question John Delaney over the FIFA payment.
• People are not happy a sex shop is opening near a school in Kilkenny.

WORLD

Pope Francis met with Russian President Vladimir Putin today. Associated Press Associated Press

#AUSTRALIA: The political advisor who said the Irish can’t grow potatoes has apologised.

#USA: The man behind the Sunday Game theme song, James Last, died in Florida.

#FRANCE: The first bodies from the Germanwings plane that crashed in the Alps were repatriated.

#USA: A guide dog threw itself in front of a bus to save his blind owner.

INNOVATION

• Snapchat has added a small but important security feature to the mix.
• Miners in north-western Canada have discovered ice age camel bones whose DNA is forcing scientists to redraw the family tree of the now-extinct species. [The Guardian]

 PARTING SHOT

Incidents of police brutality in the states is making headlines a lot in recent months. But what repercussions are officers facing. [The Atlantic]

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