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

IRELAND

Kate O'Hara at the Castlepalooza Music festival being held in Tullamore Co Offaly RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• A teenage girl died after being hit by a car last night in Mayo
• Saverio Bellante was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity
• Three Anglo officials were jailed for trying to hide accounts connected to Sean Fitzpatrick
• A court ruled that the murderer of Melanie McCarthy-McNamara can stay in solitary confinement
• Brendan O’Connor had some not nice things to say to Ryan Tubridy, but RTÉ have taken them down
• A rally was held to call for the release of Afghan national Walli Ullah Safi
• A man was in court having accepted €30 to phone a bomb threat into Intel
• The Central Bank brought in new rules to limit savings in credit unions#

INTERNATIONAL

The wreckage of a plane crash which claimed four lives. Sky News Sky News

#ENGLAND: Four people were killed when their private jet crashed into a car auction.

#ISRAEL: A Palestinian baby was burned to death after its home was set on fire by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

#MH370: Debris which washed up on the island of Reunion has been confirmed as having come from the same type of plane as MH370.

INNOVATION

• Facebook is going to stream the internet to the world from 90,000 feet.
• Google Glass is back. For businesses.

PARTING SHOT

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the announcement of his wife’s pregnancy to urge people to talk about miscarriages. His open letter is lovely.

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