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

IRELAND

Father of the late Roy Collins and his wife with daughter Leanne Laura Hutton Laura Hutton

• Wayne Dundon and Nathan Killeen were given mandatory life sentences for the murder of Limerick businessman Roy Collins. 
• The Junior Ministers were reshuffled today and at 27, Simon Harris is now our most senior junior minister. 
• Over 222 children died in the Bethany Home in Rathgar but inspections from 1939 say they ‘appeared happy‘. 
• Four units of Wicklow Fire Brigade were called out to a huge blaze in Bray town this evening. 
• Irish water will be asking for your PPS number ‘within weeks’ as water charges come closer.
• More than 1,000 Irish pubs have had to shut down since 2007.

INTERNATIONAL

Palestinian youths inspect damaged building after it was hit by Israeli airstrike Associated Press Associated Press

#GAZA: Israel accepted the Egyptian peace deal today but Hamas rejected it. Meanwhile, the Dublin Embassy of Israel says the country has the ‘right to defend itself’.

#MOSCOW: Ten people were killed after a train derailed during rush hour this morning.

#SYRIA: Children are swimming in craters made by barrel bombs.

#IRAN: A young man is at risk of hanging for a crime he committed as a child.

INNOVATION

Thought Silicon Valley was just for technical teen geniuses?…think again. Here’s 40 people who made in after 40. [TechCrunch]

A take-away from Mars may not be happening any time soon but LED technology is being developed to grow food on Mars. Baby steps! [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

Turns out it’s not all about black anymore. Nope…blackest is now the new black.

Scientists have developed a material so dark that you can’t see it. [Independent.co.uk]

Originally posted 9:00pm