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

IRELAND

Pictured in Castletown House, Celbridge to launch the Irish Antique Dealers Association's Antiques Fair taking place this Saturday and Sunday in Castletown House is two-year-old Zoe Ryan from Laois holding a button embroidered by Countess Markievicz when she was in Holloway Prison. Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Everyone lost the vote to be the next Taoiseach
• But TDs voted to take eight days off anyway
• An Irish man was arrested in Alicante over a double murder in Louth
• Luas drivers announced more strike days
• Ivan Yates was announced to be leaving Newstalk
• It was revealed over 800 tourists were robbed or attacked here last year
• A man died after falling from a roof in Donegal
• A man lost a case against Dunnes Stores

INTERNATIONAL

Artist Serena Korda plays her art work titled Hold Fast, Stand Sure, I Scream a Revolution part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#PANAMA PAPERS: The company at the centre of the explosive “Panama Papers” revelations on off-shore holdings has said they were hacked by servers abroad.

#WISCONSIN: Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump took a beating in the Wisconsin primaries.

#CANADA: A Canadian teenager who robbed a shop for money for a plane ticket to Syria was today sentenced to two years detention.

INNOVATION

• The new Huawei has beaten the new iPhone to the punch in one way.
• The new Kindle will have a really, really long battery life.

PARTING SHOT

Are you a fan of The West Wing? A new podcast features Will Bailey and rewatches all of the episodes. This week’s features Dulé Hill who plays Charlie.

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