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

IRELAND

Liam Neeson arrives ahead of the IFTAs tonight at the Mansion House in Dublin, where he will be given a lifetime achievement award. Niall Carson Niall Carson

• FF and FG released coordinated statements confirming talks next week
• Tributes were paid, following the death of a councillor in Wexford
• Gardaí appealed for help tracing a gunman who opened fire at a shopping centre in Dublin yesterday
• Details emerged of a rescue by Dublin firefighters 
• People were talking about that sausage-making segment on the Late Late 
• An investigation into the death of an elderly woman in a road crash in Northern Ireland continued
• Met Éireann issued two weather warnings 
• And there was the small matter of the Grand National 

WORLD

#ATTACKS: Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini was charged with “terrorist murders” and confessed he was the man in the hat (above) seen with the suicide bombers at Brussels airport.

#TURKEY: The US Embassy in Turkey warned of “credible threats” to tourist areas in Istanbul and the resort city of Antalya.

#LONDON: Protesters in London called for David Cameron to go, as he admitted he had mishandled the Panama Papers controversy.

INNOVATION

• Apologies have been issued after several US radio stations played out an explicit podcast to listeners, apparently after a hack. [BBC Tech]
• And people all over the world were wasting their time this week watching a video of two people putting rubber bands on a watermelon [Tech Insider]

PARTING SHOT

Bruce Springsteen’s in the news this weekend, following his decision to cancel a gig in North Carolina in protest at a new state law that targets transgender people.

As good a reason as any to delve into the Boss’s archives…

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