Updated 21.05

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

IRELAND 

Felix O Conner (5) at the Bram Stroker Festival's Scary Trail in Dublin. Sam Boal Sam Boal

• Irish screen great Maureen O’Hara died aged 95.
• A dozen people were rushed to hospital after a collision between a car and a Luas in Dublin.
• A newly-wed couple from Co Down drowned off the coast of South Africa.
• There was an emergency landing at Dublin Airport after a woman went into premature labour on a transatlantic flight.
• Two severed pigs’ heads with racially offensive slogans written on them were left outside a derelict church in Belfast.
• After yesterday’s train strike, there were more unrelated disruptions that will continue into the long weekend.
• Four puppies were stolen from a house in the Crumlin area of Dublin.
• Former Fianna Fáil minister Noel Dempsey said the experience of the financial collapse is “seared into his soul”.
• The ‘abortion pill bus’ arrived in Dublin as part of the campaign to repeal the eighth amendment.

INTERNATIONAL

Dressed in costumes, Iraqi Shiite faithful re-enact the 680 A.D. battle of Karbala. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#PATRICIA: The strongest hurricane ever made landfall in Mexico but it caused less damage than was feared.

#FRANCE: Investigators said it could take weeks to identify the victims of a horror crash in Bordeaux that killed 43 people.

#PORTUGAL: Anti-austerity parties won Portugal’s election but they’ve been effectively banned from power by the country’s president.

INNOVATION

• The head of taxi app Hailo in Ireland said that the company is confident of seeing off the challenge of Uber.
  
• Want to freshen up your homescreen? Here’s our list of the 5 apps worth downloading this week.

PARTING SHOT

Maureen O’Hara, who died today, receiving an Honorory Award from the Oscars in 2014.