Updated 11.22 pm

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

IRELAND

Chrissy Dee competes at the World Irish Dance Championships in the INEC, Killarney. Valerie O'Sullivan Valerie O'Sullivan

• Ian Bailey lost his High Court case against the State.
• A Fianna Fáil councillor is set to run for Renua Ireland in the Carlow-Kilkenny by-election.
• The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne has apologised after a priest said murdered Jill Meagher would be alive if she’d had more faith.  
• Gardaí want to reunite people with more than 1,000 pieces of stolen jewellery.
• St Patrick’s Institution finally closed today, almost two years after the decision was announced.
• All packaged meat will soon have to state its country of origin.
• Neil Delamere will take over a Sunday morning slot on Today FM.
• The Government’s Gulfstream jet has been sold for $500,000.
• Agriculture minister Simon Coveney says he’s not worried that the removal of milk quotas will hurt dairy farming in Ireland.
• The government will consider a lifesaving meningitis jab for children but only if a cost effective agreement can be struck.
• Gardaí are trying to identify a man whose body was found in 2002.

INTERNATIONAL

Nigel Farage starts his election campaign by launching a UKIP poster in central London. Jeff Moore / EMPICS Entertainment Jeff Moore / EMPICS Entertainment / EMPICS Entertainment

#COUNTDOWN: The UK Parliament was dissolved, meaning the general election campaign is officially underway.

#ANDREAS LUBITZ: The co-pilot believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings plane was treated for suicidal tendencies “several years ago”.

#TRAGEDY: A man was killed after trying to save his brother from being hit by a Tube train in central London.

#US ATTACK: One person was shot dead when an SUV drove into the gates of the NSA’s headquarters in Maryland.

INNOVATION

• US special agents probing the Silk Road drug website have been charged with stealing the online currency Bitcoin.
  
• Remember the classic Super Mario 64 (it’s been 19 years). Well, it’s now available to play on your web browser.
• Facial recognition experts have recreated what’s deemed to be the most attractive male and female faces in the UK.

PARTING SHOT

It’s estimated that Sylvester Stallone has killed over 500 people in film over a 45-year career. Here’s every one in a single 35 minute Youtube video.