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

IRELAND

Dancers at the Céilí Mór at The Gathering traditional festival in the Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney Valerie O'Sullivan Valerie O'Sullivan

• Enda Kenny has hit out at the ‘economic cesspit’ that Fianna Fáil left behind. 
• Gerry Adams has said that the son of a prison officer killed by the IRA more than 30 years ago has given him the names of two people the family believe were involved in the death. 
• A campaign has been launched by the Disability Federation of Ireland to have issues for disabled people addressed at the election. 
• Angela Lansbury has been honoured in Dublin.
• Three polls were published this morning, showing a range of results for the parties.
• Speaking yesterday evening, Enda Kenny hit out at ‘All Ireland champion whingers’ in his constituency of Castlebar. 
• A 20-year-old man was attacked by a group of 10 youths and struck with a hammer in Belfast. 
• A poll carried out for Claire Byrne Live has shown that almost half of people think that Leo Varadkar would make a better leader of Fine Gael than Enda Kenny. 

INTERNATIONAL

Competitors at the All Scotland Irish Dancing competition in Glasgow today Danny Lawson / PA Wire Danny Lawson / PA Wire / PA Wire

#GERMANY: Police in the country have described how onlookers cheered when a building that had been set to accommodate migrants caught on fire. 

#UNITED STATES: Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have pulled off wins in the most recent stages of their candidacy races. 

#UNITED KINGDOM: A lock of John Lennon’s hair has sold for $35,000. 

INNOVATION

• There is a difference between a phone being water resistant and waterproof. Did you know there is a rating system to tell you which one your phone is?
• Biotech (the industry responsible for printing prosthetic limbs) is struggling in Ireland because of conservative funders. 

PARTING SHOT

Looking for something unusual? How about Mattie McGrath reworking Simon and Garfunkel’s The Boxer into an election song? Strange enough for you?  [Daily Edge]