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

The St Brigids GNS school in Killester celebrated their First Holy Communion in February. A number of the girls play for Craobh Chiarain GAA club in Donnycarney on the under 8 team, and here they are posed with their hurleys. Michelle La Grue2012 Michelle La Grue2012

IRELAND

• Fintan Warfield has become the first senator elected to the Seanad
• A Paralympian had his adapted car stolen from outside his house
• Rank-and-file gardaí don’t think much of the Commissioner’s stance on station closure
• An investigation was opened after a Tyrone farmer died in a bull attack
• A man was sentenced for hitting another man twice in the head with an axe
• Luas talks broke down after the company rejected a 26.5% pay claim
• Government talks began again today – but there was no movement
• Cork schoolchildren had a lucky escape after a bus caught fire
• A funeral director has hit a snag in his plans to move a Boeing 767 to a Sligo camping site
• David Mahon is accused of ‘gutting’ his stepson with a carving knife
• Irish is considered to be among the hardest and least interesting subjects in school
• Joshua Molloy is due to begin his return home from Iraq after fighting Isis in Syria
• Shots were fired at two Meath homes last night

WORLD

Anzac Day took place today. It honours the soldiers of the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps who died in World War I at the 1915 battle for Gallipoli, Turkey. Michel Spingler Michel Spingler

#OHIO Police have warned people to arm themselves after the ‘execution’ of an Ohio family

#USA Former senator Harris Wofford is to marry his same-sex partner, 25 years after his wife’s death.

#NORWAY A fighter jet machine gunned its own tower by accident.

#UFC Dana White has rubbished Conor McGregor’s claim that his fight against Nate Diaz is to go ahead on 9 July.

INNOVATION

• We’re always being warned not to take our phones to bed, but can technology actually help you to sleep better? Yes, says this expert. [The Guardian]
• Twitter is now letting harassment victims submit more evidence against abusers [The Next Web]

PARTING SHOT

Fan of running? It’s an activity that’s known for clearing the mind – and now neuroscientists have worked out how it does it. [Science of Us]

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