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

Darth Vader (Alfie Taylor from Lucan) at the Star Wars Convention in in the RDS today. Sam Boal Sam Boal

IRELAND

• Gerry Adams was warned about a ‘credible death threat’.
• Both the Irish and UK Governments welcomed Sinn Féin’s continued support of the PSNI.
• €1.5 million worth of cannabis herb was found at a Dublin business park.
• Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore says the Government will talk about water charges tomorrow.
• A nine-year-old boy was in a critical condition after he was pulled from the sea in Co Clare yesterday.
• A post-mortem was carried out on Christopher Zambra who was shot dead yesterday.
• A three-year-old boy died after a two car crash in Monaghan this evening. A motorcyclist also died in a separate collision.
• European election candidate Bríd Smith submitted an official complaint over RTÉ’s coverage of an opinion poll she claims she was excluded from.

INTERNATIONAL

Women calling on the Nigerian government to rescue 223 kidnapped girls. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#NIGERIA: Boko Haram militants today claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of 223 schoolgirls and threatened to sell them into slavery.

#BAILOUT EXIT: Portugal followed Ireland’s lead by choosing to leave its bailout programme without a precautionary credit line.

#PISTORIUS: Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial resumed this morning with a neighbour and friend giving a heart-wrenching account of finding the “broken” athlete coming down the stairs, holding his dead girlfriend in his arms.

INNOVATION

• Sony has developed a new storage tape that is able to hold up to 185 terabytes of data per cartridge. The tape hold 148 gigabits per square inch – beating a record set in 2010 more than five times over. [BBC]
  

PARTING SHOT

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Ever look at a movie poster and think, ‘That looks cool but it would SO much better if it was moving’? Yea, me neither, but somebody obviously did and did something about it. The result is pretty awesome.