EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of the main news stories of the day, as well as the bits and pieces that you may have missed.

• A report into the 2009 Air France crash has found that the crew was insufficiently trained and didn’t understand the situation they were dealing with. All 288 on board were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic en route from Rio to Paris. Three Irish women, returning from a holiday together, were among those killed.
• Paul McGennis, the 81-year-old priest who abused a girl in his parish in the early eighties has been jailed for two years. He was sentenced to six years, but his age and health were taken into account. He had previously apologised to his victim.
• A man in his forties has been charged with the attempted false imprisonment of a young girl in the Ferbane area of Offaly last week. The teenager said that a man in a white van attempted to pull her into the vehicle, but she escaped following a struggle.
• A school in Donaghmede in Dublin for childen with autism was the scene of some sadness today as it closed its doors for the last time. The Acheive ABA School was funded until now by parents, but the Department of Education has turned down funding proposals:

Nicci McConnell and her son Jack Savage leaving the Achieve ABA School for the last time. Pic: Photocall Ireland

• A man has been arrested after a cash-trapping device was found attached to an ATM in Greystones yesterday. The 21-year-old man has been charged.
• Heading to see Prince tomorrow night? You're not the only one. More than a dozen Revenue workers will be there too, to quiz stall holders and employees on their tax affairs. Rock on.
• Read one recovering drug user's account of how it feels to wrestle with an addiction. Brendan Magee writes in the wake of the death of Amy Winehouse at the weekend.
• You're gonna want to see this picture: Man gets stuck in manhole trying to save his phone.
• US president Barack Obama and his team have taken to Twitter in an effort to get his followers to lobby Republicans to reach a compromise on the debt ceiling. Some Twitter users say it's overkill though, and are threatening to unfollow.
• Is the outgoing Provost of Trinity College Dublin Provost an Anchorman fan perhaps? Watch as he urges students to 'stay classy'.
• And finally. Is this Microsoft taking a pop at Google? This 'leaked' video slams Gmail  and the Gmail Man for 'looking at everyone's mail'...

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