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

‘Vikings’ Gary Nolan and Iian Barlow promote the upcoming ‘Battle of Clontarf’ Festival in Dublin today (Image:Sasko Lazarov/PhotocallIreland)

IRELAND

• TDs debate a motion of no confidence in Justice Minister Alan Shatter
• Conversations between prisoner and their solicitors were ‘inadvertently recorded’
• Report reveals the Justice Department didn’t think Callinan’s taping revelations were that important
• Two men were arrested after an armed hold up at a Dublin post office
• TD Michael Lowry is to be tried over tax returns [RTÉ]
• NGOs share facts on Twitter with hashtag #NotAnAprilFool
• Luke Ming Flanagan asked Alan Shatter to buy an aircraft carrier
• Trinity recalls student medical journal for including step-by-step guide to making mephedrone

WORLD

(Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP/Press Association Images)

#HARMFUL: A Nine-year-old girl was hospitalised in England after a vodka-whiskey neknomination.

#SOUTHAFRICA: Two men were arrested after being found inside an ATM machine.

#FLIGHT214: Pilot error is the ‘probable cause’ of the fatal San Francisco plane crash.

INNOVATION

• Researchers have developed technology which can recreate natural sunlight in indoor locations.
• Dublin is to become the first fully ‘sensored’ city in the world.

PARTING SHOT

It’s April Fools Day and this certainly caught a few people out!

Dun Laoghaire Coast Guard announced reports of a giant squid that was washed up on shore.

(DunLaoghaireCoastGuard/Facebook)

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