EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of all the day’s main news, as well as the bits and pieces that you may have missed along the way.

• Four people, including a teacher and three children, were shot dead in front of a Jewish school in southwest France this morning. The killer fled the scene on a scooter. It is the third motorbike shooting in the country since last week. The same gun – a .45 calibre handgun – was used in all three attacks.
• A member of An Garda Siochána died following a car crash near Newtownmountkennedy in county Wicklow this morning.
• Contrary to Internet rumours circulating today, Government ministers’ homes are NOT exempt from the controversial household charge.
• Agriculture Minister has had some success in Europe today, gaining “strong support” for the fast-tracking of trade sanctions on the Faroe Islands and Iceland for their overfishing of mackerel in the North Atlantic.
• Joan Burton has said that the Government wants to avoid holding a referendum during the period when the Leaving Cert starts, the Euro 2012 football is on and the Eucharistic Congress is in Dublin.
• If you are still unsure about what Ireland will be asked to vote on during that referendum, TheJournal.ie had translated the fiscal compact treaty into layman’s terms.
• The latest update from Bolton Football Club is that midfielder Fabrice Muamba has started speaking again, two days after going into cardiac arrest during a game.
• The ASTI has hit back at claims by the Friends of the Elderly group that Transition Year is a “self-indulgent” luxury that should be completely overhauled.
• Want to take a tour of the Moon with NASA?

• While he was on a St Patrick’s Day trip to Australia, Justice Minister Alan Shatter’s home was broken into last night. Gardaí arrested a man in his 20s shortly after the attempted burglary.
• From one artist to another: photographer Eugène Atget documented Paris in the early 1900s so others could use it for their own work. MoMA has released some of those stunning and evocative street scenes to TheJournal.ie.
• Apple has decided what to do with all that cash it has been stockpiling.
• See An Taoiseach Enda Kenny ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning.
• In this evening’s column, we hear from activist group ‘Nama to Nature’ on why its members are planting trees in Ireland’s ghost estates.
• Can a town survive without women?
• New Zealand is bracing itself for a drought…of Marmite (gasp!)
• The route that the Olympic Flame will travel during its 70-day relay this summer has been unveiled. It will land in Dublin on 6 June and staff at TheJournal.ie were excited to learn it will pass very near our HQ.
• Bressie, Jedward or Tommy Bowe? Who do you reckon came first in a poll searching for Ireland’s hottest hunks?
• Speaking of teenagers’ favourites, have you ever wondered what would happen if you caught Bieber Fever?

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