Updated 23:22

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

(Market Street in Omagh following the Real IRA bomb in August 1998. Pic: Paul McErlane/PA Wire)

IRELAND

• The British Government has ruled out a public inquiry into the Omagh bombing.
• The EU is to investigate Ireland’s tax arrangements with multinational companies.
• The OECD said Ireland is getting back on its feet but needs to stick to bailout targets.
• Prison inmates poured boiling water down the throat of the man who killed Tallaght teenager Melanie McCarthy McNamara.
• An Taoiseach announced a number of Dáil reforms including longer sitting times. Opposition were unimpressed.
• Belfast parents were warned after a man offered schoolgirls modelling work through Facebook.
• The Kerry coroner told TheJournal.ie that suicides are down since Donal Walsh’s appeal.
• Inspections into Ireland’s prisons were published today. Minister Shatter responded.
• Expelled Fine Gael TD Brian Walsh won’t be aligning with the other rebels.
• Ecstasy, ammunition and blank NCT certificates were seized by Gardaí in Dublin.
• An Irish woman arrested on drugs offences in Ibiza.
• A woman was arrested in relation to the fatal hit-and-run of Alan McSherry in Donegal.
• The Daily Mail acknowledged Ryanair’s safety record in a defamation case in court today.
• Meat processing company ABP is taking legal action against a Polish supplier over horsemeat.
• The cost of legal aid has been increased by 160 per cent.

INTERNATIONAL

#SYRIA: The UN has received documents from Syria which begins the process of the country handing over its chemical weapons.

#RELIGION: Pope’s deputy says celibacy is ‘not a dogma of the Church’.

# FINAL FRONTIER: NASA’s Voyager space probe becomes first man-made object to depart the solar system for deep space.

INNOVATION

• Google celebrated ten years in Ireland by releasing a video that details what they’ve learned about the country since setting up their EMEA headquarters here in 2003.
• A report published today found that 65 per cent of Irish homes have access to broadband.
• Nearly two-years after it ran aground off Italy, a €500 million operation is set to begin to salvage the Costa Concordia. This interactive guide shows how the operation will go. [Guardian]
• Twitter has announced that it is to go public after submitting papers ahead of a planned IPO

PARTING SHOT

An unlucky frog photobombed the launch of NASA’S LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer) spacecraft in Virginia last Friday.

Here is what happened yesterday>