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

Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore and Taoiseach Enda Kenny make a jobs announcement at the Global Economic Forum meeting in Dublin Castle. (Niall Carson/PA Wire)

IRISH

• Escort and ‘hook up’ sites were among attempts to access porn at Leinster House.
• But that does not include TDs’ and Senators’ browsing history.
• The body of missing 15-year-old Chloe Kinsella was found in Limerick.
• Turnout for the referendums was low. (You still have time to vote, by the way.)
• Five children escaped uninjured when shots were fired at their house.
• A man was found unconscious in Cork city.
• New statistics reveal that eight men died by suicide every week in 2011.
• The number of teenage pregnancies is falling.
• The PSNI will re-examine transcripts from Liam Adams’s trial.
• Staff in the Ombudsman’s Office are somewhat neutered until a new head is appointed.
• Banks are refunding €25 million to customers.
• A man died in a crash in Monaghan.
• Four companies created 83 jobs.
• A horse sold for €2,850,000. Yes, a horse.

INTERNATIONAL

A boy sleeps in a temporary camp in the Italian island of Lampedusa. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

#ITALY: More than 200 people are still unaccounted for in the boat disaster off the Italian island of Lampedusa. However, bad weather has hampered the search. [BBC News]

#USA: A bankrupt company called Tweeter has done quite well out of the Twitter IPO.

#PORTUGAL: Police in Britain are analysing mobile phone data from thousands of people who were in the Portuguese resort when Madeleine McCann disappeared.

#RIP: General Vo Nguyen Giap drove the French and Americans out…today Vietnam mourns a hero.

INNOVATION

• Yes, it’s coming for you. This is the Pentagon’s robot that can run faster than Usain Bolt – and now (s)he [do you reckon it's a he or a she?] doesn’t need a power cord. Terrifying. [Gizmodo]
• Intel’s latest micro chip was designed in Kildare.
• Ever wondered what Apple’s Siri looks like? Here she is.

PARTING SHOT

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He’s been labelled the Justin Bieber of hurling and they’re not far wrong. This was the scene in Ennis this week as Clare goal-hero Shane O’Donnell tried to leave the field. Eventually, he had to get a garda escort out of the dressing room. There may be hoards of screaming girls outside RTÉ studios later so as the 19-year-old is due to appear on the Late Late Show. (Not alongside Sinéad O’Connor)

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