EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of all the day’s main news, as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed along the way.

• Irish households have seen a greater drop in wealth compared with other European countries in recent years. Want to guess what’s to blame?

• Four PSNI officers in Northern Ireland have been suspended from duty after the discovery of racist and sectarian text messages.

• A US fighter jet has crashed into a street in Virginia. Both pilots ejected safely from the F18 jet - this video was taken at the scene.

• A man has been arrested over the murder of Andrew Allen in Donegal earlier this year.

• Beaumont Hospital has asked the public to stay away as it battles a major outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.

• People all around the world have been taking part in ceremonies around the world to mark Easter. Here’s some of the best images (warning – some of them are slightly gruesome).

• “The plan was simple: we wanted to start a revolution” – In this evening’s column, Bernard Dunne writes about his campaign to see 100,000 people start to use their chuid gailge in their daily lives.

• Creches should ban television to combat childhood obesity – so says the EU. Good luck telling the kids that…

(People praying in the Dublin Mosque on the South Circular Road today. Photo: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

• Good news for Team Ireland: Martyn Irvine has secured a qualification for the London 2012 Olympics.

• What do TDs think of the fiscal treaty? A few of them have made short YouTube videos with their thoughts on it.

• The names of 3,700 people who died during the conflict in Northern Ireland have been read aloud at a Dublin church today on the 14th anniversary of the Good Friday peace agreement.

• Another patient has died at the Donegal nursing home where six residents died of influenza, but the HSE has said the death is not related to the current outbreak.

• Gardaí have seized cannabis worth €80,000 from a house in Longford.

• If only every trip to the dentist could be this entertaining…

• This short video tells the story of a long-term nursing home resident who barely responded to the people around him  - until he was played some of the music he had loved when he was younger. Sorry, I think I’ve something in my eye…

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