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

IRELAND

The Save Moore Street 2016 campaign visited the Dail and the Department of the Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht today calling on the acting Minister Heather Humphreys not to appeal the recent High Court ruling that declares Moore Street a battle field monument. They held a funeral for Ireland's heritage. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• A Limerick gang were sentenced in England over a €73 million museum crime plot
• A tweet by Leo Varadkar got some politicians upset
• The Irish links to the Panama Papers were unveiled
• A Belfast women was given a suspended sentence for taking abortion drugs
• The Necrology Wall in Glasnevin Cemetery raised the ire of Irish speakers
• A man who glassed his ex-wife’s new partner was given a suspended sentence
• Lawyers for Wayne Dundon said he was “entitled to justice”
• Sean FitzPatrick applied to have the judge for his trial changed

INTERNATIONAL

A marquee of the Arango Orillac Building lists the Mossack Fonseca law firm, in Panama City. The law firm is at the centre of questions about offshore accounts. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#PANAMA PAPERS: World leaders, including Vladimir Putin and David Cameron, were asked questions about their links to the Panama Papers. Iceland’s Prime Minister got pretty uncomfortable about the whole thing.

#NEPAL: An undercover report claims that child survivors of the Nepal earthquake are being sold as slaves in the UK.

#GERMANWINGS: Families of last year’s Germanwings crash deliberately caused by a suicidal co-pilot have expressed outrage after his parents placed a heartfelt newspaper announcement in his memory.

INNOVATION

• This robot based on Scarlett Johansson isn’t creepy at all. Nope. 
• Google took a Taliban app off the Play Store.

PARTING SHOT

This Donegal man became a world record holder this evening, shearing a sheep in 37.9 seconds.