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

IRELAND

The scene outside the GPO earlier this evening Patrick Rushe Patrick Rushe

• The Luas strike on 8 March has been cancelled but the Easter stoppages are set to go ahead. 
• Tánaiste Joan Burton has written an email to all the Labour party’s members telling them that its time to “reflect, rebuild and renew”.
• A snow and ice warning has been issued for tonight. 
• The funeral of Vincent Ryan will take place next week.
• A travel agent has been convicted of stealing more than €18,000 from a charity he founded to bring terminally ill children to Lapland. 
• The election finally came to an end today… here are the TDs that lost their seats. 
• A truck has gone on fire near to the Dublin Port Tunnel. 
• Fianna Fáil were back in business at Leinster House today. 

INTERNATIONAL

The Irish, New York City and Gay Pride on flags at a news conference in the Irish Consulate. The parade will now allow gay and lesbian groups to march under their own flags Mary Altaffer Mary Altaffer

#DONALD TRUMP: The 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney has hit out at current frontrunner Donald Trump.

#NEW YORK: The world’s most expensive train station has opened its doors in New York today. 

INNOVATION

• There are 100 new jobs on the way at PayPal in Dublin. 
• In something straight out of a sci-fi film, researchers have taken a step closer to allowing humans to control electronic limbs with their minds. 

PARTING SHOT

Think Donald Trump’s presidential campaign verges on the ridiculous? Well it turns out an Italian novelist has also been running for President…  [BBC]