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

IRELAND

A burnt out car is removed from the scene of a shooting in Dublin. Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Gardaí are hunting for two gunmen after the shooting dead of a man in Drumcondra.
• There is still no verdict in the murder trial of Graham Dwyer.
• The man who raped and killed Jill Meagher in Melbourne was convicted of three more rapes.
  
• The government is considering giving self-employed people the same benefits as PAYE workers.
• National newspaper editors defended their coverage of the Celtic Tiger from politicians at the banking inquiry.
• Loyalist paramilitaries are being blamed for a murder and a string of other attacks.
• A UCC student died after a fall at the university campus.
• The fact that companies are using JobBridge to take on fully-qualified solicitors has been described as “a joke”.
• TDs referenced both The Simpsons and The Sopranos in separate Dáil debates.

INTERNATIONAL

Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz who's being blamed for deliberately crashing the Germanwings plane. Facebook Facebook

#GERMANWINGS: Investigators say the downed plane that crashed in the French Alps was crashed deliberately by co-pilot Andreas Lubitz.

#NEW YORK: Several people have been injured after a major fire collapsed a residential block in Manhattan’s East Village.

#BATTLE FOR NUMBER 10: David Cameron and Ed Miliband will both be quizzed by Jeremy Paxman as the UK general election campaign heats up. (Sky News)

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