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

IRELAND

Ashling Thompson, Ellen Ryan, Jim Breen Chloe Reilly and Ray D'Arcy Launch Cycle Against Suicide Events at RTÉ today RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• The Irish Navy was involved in an operation to save hundreds of migrants
• Answers were demanded over an Irish swimming coach in the US
• Permanent TSB‘s plan to refund mortgage customers was slammed
• Revenue seized a large amount of cannabis
• Three teens were arrested after two elderly men were attacked in Athlone
• There was bad news in the latest jobless figures
• It was revealed that snack boxes ended last week‘s Cloverhill riot
• Another Renua candidate for 2016 dropped out of the race
• The weather was crap

INTERNATIONAL

Li Hua, 58, a Chinese family member of a passenger onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 looks on during a press conference at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#MH370: A part of an airplane wing found on an island in the Indian Ocean was confirmed as having come from MH370.

#FLORIDA: Police say a gruesome murder could have been to do with the “blue” moon last week.

#THAT’S ODD: A UK police force is trialling a scheme that would see burglaries at odd-numbered houses not fully investigated.

INNOVATION

• Facebook now lets you hand over control to someone after you die.
• Netflix is being really, really sound about parental leave

PARTING SHOT

The Daily Show ends tomorrow. It’s always had some…interesting guests. The show brought some of them back and most stood by what they said.

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