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

IRELAND

Fine Gael's Eoin Murphy, Michael Noonan, acting Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Josepha Madigan and Simon Coveney outside Government Buildings this evening. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• Independent TDs have called on Enda Kenny and Micheál Martin to hold government-forming talks over the weekend.
• Workplace Relations Commission chief Kieran Mulvey and Siptu president Jack O’Connor have been trading barbs over the Luas dispute.
• A 45-year-old man died in an industrial accident at a concrete plant in Co Wexford.
• Gardaí in Galway are seeking assistance from the public in tracing the whereabouts of 21-year-old Ben Garrett.
• Dee Forbes was announced as the new director general of RTÉ.
• Convicted drug smuggler Michaella McCollum was freed from prison in Peru.
• Four of the five teenage boys charged with the defilement of a 15-year-old girl at her home in Dublin appeared at Tallaght District Court.
• A judge at Limerick District Court warned a mother she will go to jail if her 15-year-old daughter misses another day at school.
• You may have noticed, it’s April Fools’ Day. Here are some of the best Irish pranks.

INTERNATIONAL

Deborah Harry performs at The Music of David Bowie tribute concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. Evan Agostini / AP/Press Association Images Evan Agostini / AP/Press Association Images / AP/Press Association Images

#BRUSSELS: The reopening of Brussels airport was delayed after airport police issued a strike because of what they say are security concerns.

#INDIA: Five construction company officials were arrested over yesterday’s collapse of a flyover bridge that killed at least 25 people.

#FRANCE: Five people were injured in a suspected gas explosion in a Paris neighbourhood.

INNOVATION

• Apple is 40 today, here are the best and worst products it has released.
• These game-changing Tesla electric cars are coming to Ireland.

PARTING SHOT

The new Sentinel-3A satellite recently began providing data from orbit. This recent image of the River Nile and Delta and the surrounding desert areas was released by the European Space Agency today.

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Originally published 9pm

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