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

IRELAND

The capital's newest festival, MusicTown 2015, kicked off with an animated and lively contemporary opera performance by festival participants, Wide Open Opera. Sylvia O Brien(banana seller), Sarah Shine, Rachel Croash(right) and Maria Kelly performed I Just Sell My Bananas, a cheerful short opera. Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• A man was arrested in connection with an alleged sexual assault on a teenager
• Buckets were deployed by the Defence Forces to fight a fire in Killarney
• There were clashes at an anti-fascist protest outside where a far-right Polish leader was due to appear
• TDs gave back €140,000 in allowances
• Dublin Bus drivers could go on strike – again
• A 13-year-old English boy was jailed for stabbing an Irish man to death
• Another language school shut, leaving 320 students out of pocket
• Ashes stolen from a house in Waterford were returned

INTERNATIONAL

A visitor views at Christie's London showroom 'Swamped' by Peter Doig, which is expected to fetch 20-30 million US Dollars. Dominic Lipinski Dominic Lipinski

#SUICIDE BOMB: A man was arrested in Kansas, preparing to launch a suicide attack on a US military base.

#SHIPWRECK: No survivors have been found after searches were conducted after a deadly shipwreck off the north coast of Haiti.

#SHE’S CLINT-IN: Hilary Clinton will officially launch her US Presidential campaign on Sunday.

#CALIFORNIA: Aerial footage has emerged of police beating a suspect who had been tasered.

INNOVATION

• The gold Apple watch, worth €19,000, was a big seller in China.
• Duolingo is going to teach people Klingon. [Geek]

PARTING SHOT

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