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

IRELAND

A memorial at the site of the mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway Source: RollingNews.ie

• The remains of young children and babies have been found in sewage chambers at a Tuam mother and baby home. The nuns who ran the home had no comment on the revelations. Meanwhile, this is how amateur historian Catherine Corless uncovered what happened at the home.
• Sinn Féin is faring very well in the Northern Assembly elections.
• The Bus Éireann strike planned for next Monday has been called off.
• €1 million is on the line as a Lotto winner has failed to claim the prize.
• Maurice McCabe has filed a lawsuit against Tusla and the HSE over a false sexual abuse claim.
• Vera Twomey has reached Kilkenny while battling tonsillitis on her cross-Ireland walk in aid of her daughter Ava.
• Just 28% of Irish people are in favour of abortion as an option in Ireland.
• The weekend weather forecast is pretty miserable.

INTERNATIONAL

Mike Pence Source: Andrew Harnik

#ROD STEWART: The Scottish singer has apologised for staging a ‘mock beheading’.

#POLAND: A Polish MEP has said that ‘women must earn less than men because they’re weaker, smaller, and less intelligent’.

#FINE FOR ME: US Vice President Mike Pence used a private email (and was hacked) while Governor of Indiana.

PARTING SHOT

She was right. Historian Catherine Corless speaks about the day when her research into the history of the Tuam mother and baby home was proven correct.