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

IRELAND

Flower sellers on Dublin's Grafton Street ahead of Mother's day. Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• A man died in a two-car crash in Cork while another man was killed in a crash on Dublin’s M50.
• Ireland were beaten by Wales in rugby’s Six Nations, denying them the chance of a grand slam championship.
• Gardaí in West Dublin seized ecstasy tablets believed to be worth €380,000. 
• Sinn Féin says it will take legal advice over claims by Regina Doherty TD about alleged abuse investigations.
• Satisfaction with the government has shot up by a six percentage points since Christmas.
• Bernie Hughes, one of four jailed anti-water charge protesters, says she is to run for the Dáil at the next general election.

INTERNATIONAL

Bloody bride Lucy at the London Super Comic Convention. Daniel Leal-Olivas / PA Daniel Leal-Olivas / PA / PA

#SUPER CYCLONE PAM: A terrifying storm has smashed into Vanuatu in the South Pacific leaving “complete devastation”.

#CLARKSON: Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson is alleged to have called a producer ‘a lazy, Irish c**t’ during their much publicised ‘fracas’.

#CRASH: A Serbian military helicopter evacuating a five-day-old baby for emergency medical treatment has crashed in heavy fog.

#DOWN: BBC’s website is back online after an outage that lasted for an hour.

INNOVATION

• Tomorrow will mark 30 years since the first .com domain name was registered.
• Facebook have bought The Find, the website that claims to be “the only way to search the entire shoppable web.”
  

PARTING SHOT

This a video of a 1973 performance of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Not I’. The eight-minute monologue features just the moving lips of it’s only performer. The monologue is currently putting Paris audiences into “group hallucination”.