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

IRELAND

The new King and Queen of the Redheads, Gary Fitzgibbons from Crosshaven and Laura-May Keohane from Kinsale, pictured onstage at the 5th Irish Redhead Convention in Crosshaven.

• Members of the public queued to pay their respects to Albert Reynolds
• Pro-life and pro-choice groups marched in Dublin
• Hopes for a solution to rail strikes were dashed
• There were calls for the inquiry into the Ms Y case to be independent
• Former Waterford Crystal workers marched to highlight their struggle to secure pensions
  
• Summer faded into the rear view in some parts of the country
• Two Derry men were remanded in custody in connection with the death of an illegal immigrant found in a container in London
• Five people were hospitalised after a car crash in Enniskillen
• Dundalk FC were fined by UEFA after their fans held a Palestinian flag up at a game

INTERNATIONAL

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#GAZA:  Five Palestinians from the same family, two children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes. Israel was responding to the killing of a child in southern Israel by a Hamas mortar.

#VOLCANO: The Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland erupted, threatening to disrupt air travel. Holiday makers will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the 2010 ash cloud that ground European air travel to a halt.

#UKRAINE: A Russian convoy left Ukraine, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for peace.

INNOVATION

• What apps should you be downloading this weekend? These ones.
• Microsoft is trying to join the smart phone fight for real. Is this the phone to do that?

PARTING SHOT

The moon landing has been a source of serious conspiracy theories for years, but space historian Amy Shira Tietel’s new video has the proof that you need to argue with theorists. It’s all in the dust, you see.

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