Here’s What Happened Today: Monday

Everone’s been talking about the dramatic MH370 developments, the Athlone child rapist’s appeal against his sentence… and Enda Kenny’s refusal to talk to the media.

Updated at 11.15pm

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

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern — amongst the mourners today at the funeral of Edward Haughey [Brian Lawless/PA Wire]

Gerry Adams again insisted he played no part in Jean McConville’s murder
It emerged the man who raped two children in Athlone is appealing his sentence
The Taoiseach refused to answer questions on the Callinan controversy
Sentencing was delayed in the case of a mother who killed her son
A student who suffered a head injury playing rugby was awarded €2.75m [RTE]
€50,000 of khat was seized in Cork
Edward Haughey was laid to rest
A woman died in a crash on the N6
A massive radio conference took place
There was “disgust” over a dog abuser’s court sentence
The IMO claimed whistleblowers were being gagged
Dublin councillors voted ‘yay‘ for a mayor plebiscite
And Cork councillors voted to honour Michael D Higgins
And there was an appeal for 1,000 shaggy sheep…

Ukrainian sailors leave the Konstantin Olshansky navy ship in the bay of Donuzlav, Crimea [Pavel Golovkin/AP/PA Images]

WORLD

#PLANE: Malaysia’s Prime Minister said he could confirm Flight MH370 went down in the Indian Ocean, west of Perth.

#CRIMEA: Ukraine ordered its outnumbered troops out of the Crimea region (above).

#WASHINGTON: 108 people are still missing after a mudslide near Seattle.

INNOVATION

Turks are still finding ways to Tweet, despite a controversial ban [BBC]
And eight-year-old Kelly McCabe won the Doodle 4 Google contest

PARTING SHOT

Over half a million euro sounds a little pricey for a camera, right?

Especially a camera from 1971…

The Hasselblad 500 sold at auction over the weekend had a unique selling point however. It had been to the moon and back. [Yahoo News]

[Image: Galerie Westlicht]

First posted at 9.05pm

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