NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Brendan Howlin was elected uncontested as leader of the Labour Party after fellow TD Alan Kelly failed to get a party nomination for the role.
- A Waterford father was found guilty of the rape of his son.
- New regulations that came into force today include a ban on flavoured cigarettes.
- The Poolbeg glass bottle site was redesignated as a strategic development zone.
- A body was found during the search for a missing man off the coast of Clare.
WORLD
#NIGERIA: Questions were raised about a Nigerian woman after claims that she was among the 219 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014.
#FRANCE: Egypt found wreckage including seats and luggage from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean yesterday.
#PARIS ATTACKS: Salah Abdeslam, a surviving member of the group that carried out the Paris attacks in November that killed 130 people, was questioned by French investigators for the first time on Friday.
INNOVATION
- Google Chrome are trialling getting rid of the backspace button shortcut to help prevent people from losing their work.
- Soon, you should be able to unlock your computer using your phone’s fingerprint scanner.
PARTING SHOT
Check out this serious exercise courtesy of the Irish Defence Forces:
On Snapchat: Ireland’s favourite food brands were announced today. We did a blind taste test to see if people can really tell the difference between the big names and the non-brands.

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