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

Count staff begin the process of counting votes at Trinity College for the Election of the new Seanad. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• A man died in an accidental shooting in Cork
• Government formation talks reached their “end game”
• Gardaí said those behind the latest killings in Dublin would be caught
• A court heard that food critic Tom Doorley broke both shoulders after being run over
• The Seanad election counts continued, but are they pointless?
• A government report on the closing of Clerys was published
• An emergency hostel in Dublin was set to close with the loss of 100 beds
• A man whose mother reported him after discovering child sexual abuse imagery on his phone was remanded on bail
• David Mahon threatened to stab his stepson’s girlfriend, his trial heard
• A Paralympic athlete got his adapted car back after it was stolen

INTERNATIONAL

Relatives celebrate the verdicts in the Hillsborough inquests. Owen Humphreys Owen Humphreys

#HILLSBOROUGH: The 96 Liverpool fans who died in the Hillsborough disaster were finally vindicated as a jury ruled they were unlawfully killed.

#CHERNOBYL: The 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in the Ukrainian town was marked.

#NORWAY: Norway’s government said it will appeal a court ruling that mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik’s solitary confinement in prison constitutes “inhuman” treatment.

#PHILIPPINES: A Canadian citizen was killed by Islamic militants in the Philippines.

INNOVATION

• How are US hackers fighting Isis? [Geek]
• Have cheats ruined The Division on PC already? [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

Do hand dryers spread diseases? Here’s what Vox’s Julia Belluz found out.

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