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

An estimated 120,000 people turned out for dawn walks for Pieta House’s annual Darkness Into Light fundraising and awareness event this morning graphy: Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland graphy: Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• A disused Boeing 767 landed at Enniscrone beach in Sligo and was being moved to a site there to be the centrepiece of a new glamping village. The final leg of a long journey from Shannon Airport. 
• All 108 seats were filled in the Northern Ireland Assembly election – with the political landscape not too different to how it was before.
• The new Minister for Social Protection Leo Varadkar has outlined his early plans for the department, saying that the new position wasn’t a demotion but was “maybe a move sideways”.
• A Cork man was jailed for sexually assaulting his friend’s daughter.
• An estimated 120,000 people took part in the annual Darkness Into Light charity run in support of suicide and self-harm charity Pieta House.
• Labour leader Joan Burton has criticised the new government formation. Saying that Fianna Fáil ‘has its foot on Enda Kenny’s neck‘.

WORLD

A water bomber drops water on a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta. AP AP

#CANADA: Over 80,000 people have now had to leave Fort McMurray in Alberta Canada due to massive wildfire engulfing the area. Authorities fear that the huge blaze could double in size by the end of the day.

#COLOGNE: A German court threw out sexual assault charges against an Algerian man stemming from New Year’s Eve violence in Cologne after the victim said she could not identify the defendant.

#EGYPT: An Egyptian court recommended death sentences to be handed down to three journalists over conspiracy charges.

INNOVATION

• Google don’t have a desktop playing service for its Google Play music – so these guys invented one (via Wired.com).
• The Guardian reviewed the long-awaited Uncharted 4 video game – and it looks great (via The Guardian).

PARTING SHOT

Check out this beautiful song version of the Yeats poem Sixteen Dead Men – performed by Lisa Lambe to commemorate the executions of the 1916 rebels.

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