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

Sister Anastasia of the Franciscan order casting her vote at Knock National school in Mayo Brian Lawless / PA Wire Brian Lawless / PA Wire / PA Wire

• The public has gone to the polls to vote for the TDs that will make up the next Dáil. 
• A snow and ice warning has been issued by Met Eireann for Cork, Kerry and Waterford. 
• Three teenage boys were earlier today accused of defilement of a 15-year-old girl in a court in Dublin. 
• A 12-year-old boy was killed today when the pony-and-trap he was travelling on collided with a truck. 
• Workers at a Cadbury production plant in Dublin have said that they have been left with “no option” but to go on strike indefinitely. 
• Well known republican Thomas Murphy was today sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for tax evasion. 
• 13 families in Dublin are fighting eviction from their emergency accommodation. 
• A man was killed last night in south Belfast after four men stormed into his house and shot him.

INTERNATIONAL 

Somalis injured in a bomb attack today at a hotel in Mogadishu. Fourteen people were killed in the attack AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#UNITED STATES: Former Republican candidate Chris Christie has come out in support of Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency. 

#FIFA: Football’s world governing body Fifa has elected a new president in Zurich today. 

INNOVATION

• Plans that Microsoft had to bring Android apps to Windows have been put to one side. 
• Apple has changed its site code to stop the world ‘click’ looking like a different word (look again). 

PARTING SHOT

Remember ‘The Dress’? That dress? Well this is sort of like that. Except it’s a jacket. [Daily Edge]