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

The body is removed from the scene at the Spring Mount apartment complex on Wellmount Road in Finglas, North Dublin. (Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

IRELAND

• Gardaí in Dublin appealed for information after a 29-year-old man was found dead in Finglas, two men were later arrested.
• The Ard Comhairle of Sinn Féin approved the Haass proposals
• The Health and Safety Authority was investigating after a man died in a workplace accident in Donegal
• Gardaí renewed appeals for help in locating missing 16-year-old Maggie Goulden
• Property developer and charity boss Niall Mellon gave a frank interview to Marian Finucane
• The cost of repairs to coastal areas after last week’s storms were estimated at over €23 million
• Irish bookies Paddy Power may have contravened UN sanctions after giving Kim Jong-Un some whiskey
• A group campaigning for the restoration of Dublin’s Georgian Mile said it is ‘what people want’
• Sinn Féin TD Seán Crowe said he had raised the plight of Palestinian refugees with the Iranian government

INTERNATIONAL

Palestinians stand over a picture of the former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

#SHARON: Former Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon died today, eight years after slipping into a coma. Sharon’s legacy divides the Israeli right, having withdrawn troops from Gaza and moving towards a more centrist view in his latter years.

#BASQUE: Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of the northern Spain city of Bilbao. The protest was officially held to call for “human rights”, but was originally planned to call for ETA prisoners to be held in prisons closer to home.

#VIOLENCE: Despite the resignation of the president and prime minister, violence broke out in the Central African Republic overnight. Sectarian clashes between Muslims and Christians have led to the UN planning to airlift foreigners from the country.

#EGYPT: The leader of Egypt’s army says that he will run for the presidency of the country only if the public demands it. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was the leader of the military that ousted Mohammed Morsi last July and Morsi’s supporters have accused him of staging a military coup.

INNOVATION

• Ever wanted your own tiny, (slightly more) affordable satellite? Now you can have one. For the low, low price of €20,000. [Geek.com]
• Are you ready for this Jelly? Or do you even get what the app is about? Let TheJournal.ie help. [TheJournal.ie]
• Who has benefited most from the next generation of consoles? Pizza Hut, of course. [GamesIndustry]

PARTING SHOT

Astronaut and Irish tourism ambassador Commander Chris Hadfield stopped by the BT Young Scientist exhibition today. Despite his new role, he still found time to join Cillian Upton of St Muredach’s College in Ballina for a selfie. (Pic: Photocall Ireland)

Of course, TheJournal.ie was there as well all week, discovering how to stop mastitis, a new approach to eye drops and which bread gets mouldy quickest.