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

Tyrrelstown protesters who are tenants in dispute with developer and vulture funds protest against eviction outside Leinster House today Source: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• A man died in a road crash in Waterford this morning.  
• A man is in a critical condition after he was found on the road in Portlaoise after having been stabbed in the stomach.
• Two men were arrested as gardaí attempted to move Travellers from an illegal halting site in Dundalk.
• 1,400 drink driving prosecutions can now go ahead after the Court Appeal turned over a ruling that said that breathalyser test statements were not valid if printed in the English language only.
• A murder investigation is under way in the North after a delivery driver in his 50s was shot dead as he sat in a car in west Belfast last night.
• Gardaí have announced that they will march on Leinster House on 17 May – the first day of the new government.
• Joan Burton announced today that she is resigning as Labour leader.

WORLD

People playing the role of injured shoppers react during an exercise at the Intu Trafford Centre in Trafford, Manchester, to test the emergency response to a major incident. Source: Sean Hansford/PA Wire

#MANCHESTER: Police apologised after a man was shown shouting an Islamic religious phrase during a mock terror attack in a shopping centre in Trafford.

#GERMANY: One man died and three were injured in a knife attack at train station in Grafing, a town about 40km east of Munich, this morning.

#JAPAN: Barack Obama is set to make history by being the first US president to visit Hiroshima since the US dropped an atomic bomb there in 1945.

INNOVATION

• You can now check if someone has secretly hacked your iPhone.
• Siri is getting a younger, better little sister called Viv.

PARTING SHOT

Source: Mark Nolan Inishowen Photography via @mfn1234

Is that a Millennium Falcon? Star Wars crews along the Wild Atlantic Way are working hard to finish the sets in time for filming.