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

South Africans mourn and cheer as the hearse transporting Nelson Mandela passes through the town of Mthatha on its way to Qunu today. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

IRELAND

• Enda Kenny will address the nation tonight as Ireland exits the bailout programme.
• A man in his 40s was shot dead on a road in north Dublin.
• The death of a woman in a Mayo house is being treated as murder.
• Dublin has got the worst rate of food poverty in the country.
• Gardaí seized more than €1 million in cash in a Limerick sting operation.
• Up to 150 construction jobs are to be created in Dublin.
• Alan Shatter says Irish troops are not being targeted in Syria.
• Campaigner David Hall has ruled out running in the European elections.

INTERNATIONAL

Peter O’Toole at Heathrow Airport in 1982. (PA Wire)

#MANDELA: A nation has said its final farewell to Nelson Mandela as the former South African president was buried at a funeral service in his childhood village of Qunu today.

#FINAL CURTAIN: Legendary actor Peter O’Toole has died at the age of 81. President Michael D Higgins said the world had lost “one of the giants” of film and theatre.

#PROTESTS: An estimated 200,000 people have rallied in the Ukrainian capital Kiev in protest against the president’s refusal to sign a landmark deal with the European Union.

INNOVATION

• Remember Foursquare? Wired writes about the brilliant hack that brought the location-based social network back from the dead. [Wired]
• Ford has unveiled a self-driving car which can apparently “see” in the same way a bat or dolphin can. That’s reassuring. [CNET]

PARTING SHOT

From Lady Gaga wearing nothing to a Daft Punk staring contest, New York Magazine has put together the best entertainment photography of the year. Bonus points for the amazing black and white shot of Frank Ocean. [NYMag]

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