Updated 22:25

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

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary wants to play nice now (Image: Richard Drew/AP/PA).

IRISH

• Ryanair plans to cut its most annoying fees and introduce quiet flights.
• The man charged with the murder of Elaine O’Hara appeared in court. [RTÉ]
• SIPTU Dublin Bus drivers voted to reject the new cost-cutting plans though, NBRU accepted it.
• The Dáil passed the Social Welfare Bill.
• ACC Bank announced it’s shedding 180 jobs.
• Some €1.4 million in salaries for 17 people working for the Taoiseach will be paid this year.
• Wicklow County Council was fined €355,000 over the deaths of two firemen in 2007.
• A temporary glitch led to a delay in wage payments for some PTSB customers.
• Gardaí are looking for missing man Andrejs Maisaks.
• Separated dads are worried about ‘unjust’ tax credit changes.
• The Wallis strike ended after five weeks.
• Pregnant mothers protested outside the Dáil against cuts to maternity benefit.
• Alan Shatter declared himself the Minister for Time.

(Image: Associated Press)

WORLD

#GREECE: A DNA test has proven that a Bulgarian Roma couple are the biological parents of a little girl taken from the care of another Roma family in Greece.

#ITALY: Nearly 700 refugees were rescued from boats off the coast of Sicily in a 24 hour period.

#UNITED STATES: Germany and France are determined to force the US to agree to new transatlantic rules on intelligence and security behaviour. [The Guardian]

#JAPAN: A small tsunami hit Japan after an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5. [AFP]

INNOVATION

• Grand Theft Auto 5 bagged Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick awards. [BBC]
• So you think our generation created the GIF? Sure they were basically doing the same thing with projectors in the 1600s. [The Verge]

PARTING SHOT

The World Economic Forum named Iceland as the country with the smallest gender gap today. The results for all countries are laid out in this nice map. If you can’t be bothered checking, we came 6th in the world.