EVERY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of the biggest news stories, as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed during the day.

• The acting CEO of Tallaght Hospital sent a text message to medical staff this morning, urging them to immediately discharge patients to alleviate hospital overcrowding.
• As speculation over the composition of the new cabinet continues, Labour leader Eamon Gilmore is being tipped for the Foreign Affairs ministry.
• On the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, Concern Worldwide workers have written of the discrimination, violence and coerced sex which continue to afflict many of the world’s young girls.
• An American college student has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the computer system of his former high school to tamper with students’ grades.
• Conor Duffy, 18, has been found not guilty of the murder of 50-year-old Aidan Kane in Dublin in 2008, but guilty of manslaughter.
• Christians and Muslims have clashed in Cairo today, the AP reports, after tensions between the two communities escalated after a Christian church in the city’s suburbs was burned down.
• NASA’s most-travelled shuttle Discovery is preparing for its final journey back to Earth tonight and could land in Florida as early as noon local time tomorrow (5pm Irish time).
• The real Up? National Geographic has released footage of a stunt showing dozens of balloons lifting a small house clean off the ground:

- Includes reporting from the AP