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

IRELAND

Last year's Festival Queen Laura-May Keohane from Kinsale at the opening night of the Irish Redhead Convention which takes place this weekend in Crosshaven, Co Cork.

• A man was killed in a shooting incident in Athy, Co Kildare.
• The PSNI said it is concerned about a suspected Provisional IRA link to Kevin McGuigan’s murder.
• Gardaí are being used to interview social welfare claimants to cut down on potential overpayments or fraud.
• Independent News and Media announced it is to close a printing operation in Belfast, with the potential loss of 89 jobs.
• More than 35,000 people have accepted first round CAO offers.
• Nurses slammed the HSE over 78 jobs left unfilled at just one hospital.
• A young man was arrested after an armed robbery in Kildalkey, Meath yesterday.
• Millions of Ryanair customers could be due a refund.
• The government intends to introduce legislation providing for rent certainty by October, according to one coalition senator.
• Vice visited Limerick and people are not happy with how the city was represented.

INTERNATIONAL

Refugees react during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia. PA PA

#GREECE: Some MPs are leaving Syriza to form their own party – Laiki Enotita (Popular Unity).

#EUROPE: Off-duty US Marines reportedly overpowered a gunman on train from Amsterdam to Paris.

#IRAQ: The second-in-command of the Islamic State jihadist group has been killed in a US air strike.

#FRANCE: The country’s far-right National Front party is at war.

#FLORIDA: A ten-year-old who was bitten by shark in Florida went back into the water to save her friend.

#THAILAND: A Thai TV station apologised for re-enacting the deadly Bangkok bombing.

INNOVATION

• Google has begun construction of €150 million data centre in Dublin that will create 400 jobs.
• The origins of the Internet’s weirdest GIFs have been unveiled. [TheNextWeb]

PARTING SHOT

John Lewis has done it again and produced another classic ad. Check it out below:

Originally published: 21.00