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

IRELAND

The view from Roundwood, Co Wicklow Patrick Rushe Patrick Rushe

• The number of social housing units being returned to a lettable, energy efficient condition has been released by the Department for the Environment. 
• A new poll from the Irish Times has shown a boost for Fianna Fáil but a slight drop for Sinn Féin. 
• Election posters for the junior minister of state with responsibility for forestry have been spotted nailed to trees in Tipperary. 
• A Muslim woman has had a bottle thrown at her in a racist attack in Dublin. 
• More than 2,000 homes and businesses were left without electricity across Ireland following a number of faults. 
• An Irish musician has been let in an induced coma following an incident in Portugal. 
• Election candidates in Carlow-Kilkenny were made to handle a snake when they paid a visit to a local radio station. 
• Gerry Adams has said that he has asked a Sinn Féin member about Brian Stack’s murder. 
• A woman was taken to hospital earlier today after being struck in the head by a Fine Gael election poster. 
• Taoiseach Enda Kenny has apologised for calling some people in Castlebar “whingers”. 

INTERNATIONAL

A villager looks the burned roof of a mosque after an arson attack in Denia village near divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#MICHIGAN: A man arrested in Michigan on suspicion of shooting dead six people in the northern US state was an Uber driver. 

#SAN FRANCISCO: A British tourist is fighting for his life after being stabbed in the head in California. 

#UKRAINE: The country’s politically charged Eurovision entry has taken aim at Russia. 

INNOVATION

• The man who helped to bring mobile phones to Ireland wants to change the way that companies text. 
• Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that he will fight the federal magistrate’s order requesting that the company unlock a phone connected to the San Bernardino shooting rampage. 

PARTING SHOT

The last 10 years have seen a succession of social media platforms come and go. None, perhaps, as prominent as MySpace. Buzzfeed has looked back at the platforms mid-00s heyday.  [Buzzfeed]