Here's What Happened Today: Saturday

Body of missing Donal Greene found in Cavan river, Sinn Féin votes to allow abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities, and water protesters march on RTÉ.

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

IRELAND

nwci Hip-hop artist MissElayneous at a National Women's Council of Ireland 'soap box' event at Dublin's Central Bank today. NWCI / TWITTER NWCI / TWITTER / TWITTER

Police in Antrim are appealing for information after a driver tried to grab a teenage girl into his car.
The body of a 22-year-old missing since last Saturday was found in a river in Cavan.
Sinn Féin has voted in favour of allowing abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities.
Around 150 water charge protesters marched on RTÉ.
A relative of Barney McGinley appeared in court charged with his murder.
The Irish Naval Service launched a recruitment campaign.
A US magazine said Dublin tourists shouldn’t bother with Irish breakfasts.
A sexual health specialist said he’d seen a rise in people seeking testing in the wake of Six Nations games.
And some people very nearly lost the run of themselves, when the sun came out.

WORLD

Mali Attack French military gather evidence at the scene of last night's nightclub shooting in Mali. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#AFRICA: Five people, including two Europeans, were killed in an attack at a nightclub in Mali.

#RUSSIA: Two people have been arrested in connection with the killing of longtime Putin critic Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated last weekend.

#MEXICO: Two mummified bodies have been found on Mexico’s highest peak. Their discovery could put an end to the mystery of climbers who vanished after an avalanche in 1959.

INNOVATION

TheJournal.ie’s Quinton O’Reilly has been at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. It was an exhausting (if gadget filled) few days by the sounds of it.
This survey from Buzzfeed thinks it can guess your age by how you use the internet. (We tried it. It’s pretty accurate).

PARTING SHOT

This clip from new US show CSI: Cyber is so dumb it might make your brain hurt.

Fidodo / YouTube

You’re better than this, Patricia Arquette (in fact – so are you, Dawson).

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