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

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IRISH

• The Graham Dwyer trial heard how a number of items including bondage cuffs, a ball gag and keys to Elaine O’Hara’s home were found near a Wicklow lake.
• A statement from the headmaster of Coláiste Eoin has said that the cancelled ShoutOut workshop failed to specify it was about bullying.  
• Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan has said she thinks it is ‘reasonable’ that personal data is kept on school children until they are 30. 
• TheJournal.ie looked into Mayo TD Michelle Mulherin request for a “Skype facility” within the Dáil.
• Anne Enright will be representing Irish fiction as its Laureate over the next three years. 
• The PSNI are set to miss the St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York – stating financial cut backs as the reason for the absence. 
• The Oireachtas Transport Committee has been told how selling the government’s shares of Aer Lingus to IAG would have a devastating effect on the economy.  
• Dublin Lord Mayor Christy Burke spoke to TheJournal.ie about his whether he’d support a Sinn Féin government. 
• A dead body was found on Botanic Avenue in Belfast in the early hours of this morning. The incident is being treated as a murder.  

WORLD

No snow: An Exmoor pony grazing in the sunny weather earlier on today above the White Cliffs of Dovor in the UK PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#EGYPT: Six people have been killed in simultaneous attacks across Egypt. Another 18 were injured.

#MEXICO: A gas blast at a children’s hospital in Mexico has killed two.

#MALAYSIA: The Malaysian government has declared the disappearance of flight MH370 an accident. [BBC]

#UNITED STATES: The CEO of McDonald’s has resigned after coming under increased pressure. 

#CHINA: Women only subways are being considered in China after reports of sexual harassment on overcrowded subway cars. 

INNOVATION

• Competition between the world’s two biggest smartphone manufacturers, Apple and Samsung, have drawn neck and neck in the battle to be the world’s top phone vendor. 
• Sky look all set to make their move into the UK’s mobile phone market after a deal with O2 owner Telefónica. [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

An attempt has been made to apply a consistent timeline to every Super Mario game ever made. [Vox]

Read: Six killed and Egyptian newspaper office destroyed in attacks

Also: Greek approach “precisely what this government did”, says Táiniste

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