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

IRELAND

• The latest opinion poll is very bad news for Fine Gael.
• TheJournal.ie carried out a FactCheck to set aside the truth and the lies from last night’s RTÉ Leaders’ Debate.
• A young boy is in hospital after being hit by a truck during the morning school run.
• A garda was hospitalised after being ‘dragged along road’ at a checkpoint.
• A jury heard today that a mother who was stabbed to death by her son “was prepared to sacrifice her own happiness”.
• The Healy-Raes could be set to take both seats in Kerry according to a new poll conducted on behalf of TG4. 
• A new survey has found that drug dealers are even targeting users’ mothers to tighten their grip of fear
• Fine Gael has proposed a dole increase of €27 for a person who becomes newly unemployed.
• The father of a sick child says his offer to do up the parents’ area at Crumlin Hospital for free was rejected. 
• A person was taken to court today after gardaí discovered a bench warrant for the driver of a van parked on footpath. 

INTERNATIONAL

#PHILIPPINES: World boxing champion Manny Pacquiao has apologised after sparking a firestorm of criticism by describing gay couples as “worse than animals”.

#EGYPTIAN: Former Secretary General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali has died.

#NIGERIA: These heartbreaking images show the moment a starving boy was rescued.

INNOVATION

• There’s a text message that can end up wiping your Android device clean. 
• The classic ZX Spectrum is being re-released as a handheld device.

PARTING SHOT

This photographer has captured the same couples over a 30-year period.

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