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

Minister for Transport Leo Varadkar. (Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

IRELAND

• Gardaí arrested two youths over the St. Patrick’s Day assault that was caught on camera.
• A gas fitter was jailed over the deaths of two school friends.
• Leo Varadkar said he thinks the Garda Commissioner should withdraw remarks that actions of two garda whistleblowers were “disgusting”.
• A man is missing following a boat accident in Lough Ree.
• A man was charged after kicking down the door of a McDonald’s in Galway and attacking staff with pepper spray.
• The average rent for a Dublin apartment is over €1000, but it’s much cheaper elsewhere.
• The Irish Cancer Society was donated over €200,000 in the last 24 hours as a result the No Make-up selfie craze.
• The death of Irish student Patrick Halpin has been ruled as not suspicious.

WORLD

A child drags a toy truck past pro-Russian soldiers at a Ukrainian military base in Crimea today. (PA Image)

#CRIMEA: The US and Russia imposed sanctions on each other today over the escalating crisis in Ukraine.

#MALAYSIAN AIRLINES: Two objects found off the Perth coast were described as the “best lead we have” in the search for flight MH370.

#USA: Fred Phelps, the founder of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church has died.

#UK: Thieves dug a tunnel into a Tesco supermarket to steal cash from the ATM.

INNOVATION

• Watch a typical day of 30,000 flights fly across Europe in one visualisation. [Wired.com]
• Are robots the next big thing? Here’s twelve reasons why they just might be. [Quartz]

PARTING SHOT

The world has caught on that Ireland has a little bit of an obsession with the man that is Garth Brooks. Here’s the BBC’s take on ‘Garthmania’. [BBC]

First published 21.00pm

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