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

IRELAND

Rob Kearney poses for a selfie with fans as the victorious Irish rugby team returns to Dublin.

• After yesterday’s anti-water-charge rally, the focus changed to non-payment.
  
• Ireland’s Women won the Six Nations rugby championship after thrashing Scotland.
• A new documentary about ‘punishment attacks’ has made claims about Gerry Adams.
• Government emails say that the Department of Environment has been ‘spinning’ housing figures.
• The body of a missing 15-year-old boy has been found and is being treated as a personal tragedy.
• A religious ‘conscience clause’ has been labelled as a ‘licence to discriminate’ by equality campaigners.
• A HSE report found that some consultants were hired without the correct tendering process.
•  Two men were arrested after a number of shots were fired in Co Meath.
• A sex worker says she will challenge Northern Ireland’s sex buyer laws in Europe.

INTERNATIONAL

A 15th century re-enactor makes spectacles as part of Richard III's burial. PA Images / Joe Giddens PA Images / Joe Giddens / Joe Giddens

#ISLAMIC STATE: A group calling itself the Islamic State Hacking Division published what it said were the names and addresses of 100 US military staff.

#FIT FOR A KING: English ‘car park king’ Richard III is finally being given a royal burial 530 years after his death.

#MOB: The funeral took place of an Afghan woman beaten to death and set on fire for allegedly burning the Koran.

INNOVATION

• Hacking. It’s regularly used as a catch-all term, but here’s what it actually means.
• Why there are no Apple Stores in the Republic? Simple question answered.

PARTING SHOT

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It can be hard to pinpoint the precise moment when you truly become an adult.

But if you have any of these items knocking around your gaff, you’re pretty much a full-blown grown up.

The 11 items in your house that prove you’re finally an adult  via DailyEdge.

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