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

IRELAND

Eamonn Heneghan plays Jesus during re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross in Clontarf . Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• The garda ombudsman is investigating the death of a man in Tralee.
• Gardaí have released details of a car used in a gangland killing in Dublin.
• A family of three, including a baby girl, are in a critical condition in hospital after a fire at a house in Belfast.
• A teenage girl was airlifted to hospital after being found in a wooded area in Co Clare.
• A major new high-rise development is being planned for Dublin’s docklands.
• An Irish real estate firm warned that the he country could “quite possibly” be headed for another property bubble.
• An Irish citizen was evacuated from Yemen with the help of China.
• Despite calls for laws to change, today’s Good Friday alcohol ban remains in place. Tourists were confused.
• Siptu’s general secretary Jack O’Connor walked off Vincent Browne’s show.

INTERNATIONAL

Masked penitent from La Santa Vera Cruz brotherhood in Northern Spain lashing themselves. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#GERMANWINGS: Data from the second black box recovered from the French Alps crash confirmed that the co-pilot acted deliberately.

#DRACHMA: Greek officials have reportedly been drawing up a plan to take over the country’s banks and re-introduce its own currency.

#NOT LOVIN’ POLICE: A Texas state trooper has been slapped on the wrist for being photographed next to Snoop Dogg.

INNOVATION

• The Irish government has begun requesting information from Snapchat. 
• Here’s how to copy photos from an iPhone without a computer. (Wall St Journal)
• Chelsea Manning joined Twitter from her prison cell.

PARTING SHOT

They say you should never meet your heroes. Unless, that is, you’re a 12-year-old boy from Donegal called Danny and your hero is Nicki Minaj. In that case, rest your weary head and enjoy the moment.