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

IRELAND

A reader sent in this great shot of Ballybunion beach, Co Kerry. Frankie Shanley captured the image earlier this evening. Frankie Shanley Frankie Shanley

• Luas operator Transdev put all staff on protective notice in the latest twist in the ongoing dispute with drivers.
• A man died in an industrial accident at a cement factory in Waterford.
• Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil held more talks about forming a government.
• A father forced his young son to have sex with his mother before showing a video tape of it to others, a court was told.
• MMA fighter Joao Carvalho died after being injured at a mixed martial arts event in Dublin on Saturday night.
• Gardaí face threats and intimidation from criminals on a daily basis, the association representing middle-ranking officers said.
• The Department of Foreign Affairs said Ibrahim Halawa has been moved to a different prison in Egypt and is not missing.
• Six valuable paintings reported stolen from a church in Galway in 2013 have been found in Offaly.
• A young woman who was driving when a car crash claimed the lives of four of her close friends asked for her passport to be returned.
• Dublin City Council defended itself against criticism that it breached data protection laws after making public CCTV images purporting to show people illegally dumping.
• Gardaí investigating an armed robbery at an adventure centre in south Dublin arrested a man in his 20s.
• Some Netflix users are facing a €2 per month price increase from May onwards.

INTERNATIONAL

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#LONDON: Music producer David Gest was found dead at a London hotel.
#AMSTERDAM: Military police arrested a man and are conducting an investigation at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport after a report of a “suspicious situation”.
#CALIFORNIA: Three young Irish women who rented the Berkeley apartment where a balcony collapse killed six people last summer are suing the apartment owners and managers for emotional distress.
#GERMANY: A rail dispatcher was playing a game on his phone shortly before two trains he was in charge of collided in February, killing 11 people, prosecutors said.
#LONDON: A man who suspected his wife was having an affair has been found guilty of her murder.
#US: A judge ruled that Led Zeppelin’s iconic song Stairway to Heaven may be partly stolen.

INNOVATION

• Soon you’ll be able to control your Android phone without using your fingers.
• HTC’s latest phone is tackling a problem that plagues most devices.

PARTING SHOT

KildareStreet.com has created a calculator that shows how much it’s costing taxpayers while politicians try to hammer out a deal on forming a new government.

Note: They are technically still doing their jobs.

Comments have been disabled because of ongoing legal proceedings in a number of the stories mentioned above. 

Originally published at 9pm