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

IRELAND

• A new biomass power station in Co Mayo will create 350 jobs over the next two years. 
• A Yes campaigner in the recent marriage referendum has had his and his family’s cars covered in acid.
• Gardaí are investigating after a carbon fibre blade was stolen from an athlete in Monaghan. 
• An inter-county footballer is being treated in hospital after being attacked in his duty as a prison officer.
• A murder investigation has begun after a man who was left in a vegetative state after an attack in 2006 died having never left an unresponsive state.
• Jack Charlton was moved to tears by a standing ovation at Lansdowne Road today.
• 133 drivers in fatal crashes were not breathalysed last year.
• A visually impaired boy in Offaly is using futuristic technology to go on the internet.

INTERNATIONAL 

#SAUDI ARABIA: A court has upheld a 10 year jail sentence and 1,000 lashes for blogger Raef Badawi.

#WASHINGTON: A 13-year-old girl killed herself just days after her father posted a video online that publicly shamed her.

#US: There were emotional scenes as Joe Biden’s son Beau was laid to rest.

#FREEDOM: Two brothers wrongfully convicted for killing a little girl say they ‘want a normal life’ after 30 years behind bars.

INNOVATION

• A new study has found that women don’t mind if men are ugly, as long as they don’t misbehave.
• Do you feel miserable all the time? Don’t worry, you can explain it away with science.

PARTING SHOT

What do you think of this sculpture, is it shocking or fine?

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The artist is being criticised for the sculpture in Versailles which may or may not depict a vagina.

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