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

IRELAND

Trevor Sargent

•  Two men have been charged in Manchester in connection with the death of Donegal man Dylan Crawford.
• Former Green Party leader Trevor Sargent is aiming to become a Church of Ireland priest.
• These are the price differences in alcohol and cigarettes across the border that Michael Noonan is monitoring.
• A Wexford woman has pleaded with burglars to return a laptop which contains pictures of her dead son.

WORLD

A gunman passes by buses destroyed by today's car bomb blast in Syria AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images

#ALEPPO: A bomb targeting evacuees outside the Syrian city has killed at least 43 people.

#MOTHER OF ALL: The death toll from the ‘Mother of All Bombs’ that America dropped on Afghanistan has reached 90.

#THE SUN: Football club Everton has banned the newspaper from its stadium and facilities in reaction to a controversial article by columnist Kelvin MacKenzie.

#UTAH: A judge in the US state has caused shock by describing a man guilty of sexual assault as “an extraordinarily good man” while sentencing him.

#NORTH KOREA: The hermit state has responded to alleged US provocation by showcasing its military might in an annual parade.

#WORLD’S OLDEST: The last surviving world citizen to be alive in the 1800s, Italian woman Emma Morano, has died aged 117.

PARTING SHOT

Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

Springtime is most certainly in the air in County Kildare, as this photo shows.

Here, Spring lambs venture out from the safety of their walled field in Athgarvan today to check out the nearby woods.