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

Garda Commissioner Noirín O'Sullivan and Taoiseach Enda Kenny pictured at a memorial day for deceased members of An Garda Síochána at Dublin Castle today Sam Boal Sam Boal

IRELAND

• Two people were injured after a gunman fired through the window of a house in Dublin.
• Former Labour leader Eamon Gilmore says that Alan Kelly will ‘work with Brendan Howlin to rebuild the party’.
• 20 former TDs have yet to return €20,000 worth of technology they had on loan from the State.
• Former GAA president and Galway hurler Joe McDonagh has died.
• Government chief whip Regina Doherty says she ‘hasn’t broken the law’ in liquidating her former company.
• A man has been charged with ‘dishonestly using electricity’ to grow drugs.
• Intel has warned that the rental housing squeeze could stall its expansion in Cork.
• Seven Red Line Luas stops will be closed for the next two months from this evening.
• The number of speed enforcement zones on Irish roads is to increase by almost 50%.
• Luas drivers spoke of their frustrations at their situation as their industrial action continues.

WORLD

The remains of a plane seat from the crashed EgyptAir flight 804 AP AP

#EGYPTAIR: As the first pictures of the crashed airliner emerged, reports suggested that the front of Flight 804 had smoke in it prior to its crash near Greece last Thursday.

#FRANCE: One of the gunmen from last November’s terror attacks has been buried six months after his death.

#UKRAINE: Relatives of victims of the MH17 Malaysian Airlines flight shot down last year are to sue Vladimir Putin for €21 million.

#MELBOURNE: A bizarre rescue unfolded off the coast of the Australian city as a hot air balloon ran out of fuel with nine people aboard.

INNOVATION

• The world’s first 3D-printed motorbike has taken its bow.
• This cordless mouse wants to be your next keyboard. Hmmm… [Geek]

PARTING SHOT

Well it wouldn’t be Saturday night without an optical illusion headache. To wit, there’s two differently-coloured spirals working their way through some pink ones here right?

Akiyoshi Kitaoka Akiyoshi Kitaoka

Right?

Nope, they’re both the same colour:

Ouch. Our heads hurt. This (along with many, many others like it) is the work of Akiyoshi Kitaoka, a professor of psychology at the University of Kyoto in Japan.

You can view more of them here. Be warned, they’ll hurt your brain.

[H/T i100]