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

BUDGET 2015

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin (left) and Minister for Finance Michael Noonan deliver the 2015 Budget at Government Buildings. Brian Lawless / PA Wire Brian Lawless / PA Wire / PA Wire

• Here are the main points you need to know from today’s Budget.
• Here’s how the measures announced will affect your pay.
• We have a blow-by-blow account of the day here.
• You can catch all our extensive coverage of today’s announcement here.

IRISH

Demonstrators outside Leinster House. Brian Lawless Brian Lawless

• A young woman died after a crash in Donegal.
• A Fine Gael TD said a story was leaked about him to cause him harm.
• Health professionals warned that sex trafficking in Ireland is a ‘hidden phenomenon’.
• Gardaí investigated a stabbing in Sligo.
• The Government accepted an invitation to lay a wreath at the Remembrance Sunday ceremony in London.
• Two new TDs entered the Dáil.
• A children’s surgeon was found guilty of poor professional performance. [RTÉ News]
• A man was arrested in connection with an explosion in Dublin earlier this year.
• Dublin Zoo was ordered to pay €5,000 to charity over a tapir attack on a toddler.

WORLD

Fighters from the Azov volunteer battalion ignite flares during the march marking the 72th anniversary of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Kiev. AP Photo / Sergei Chuzavkov AP Photo / Sergei Chuzavkov / Sergei Chuzavkov

#GERMANY: A United Nations worker died from Ebola.

#NORTH KOREA: Kim Jong-Un reappeared after an unusually long absence.

#SOUTH AFRICA: Pistorius’s sentencing hearing heard that he offered Reeva Steenkamp’s family “blood money”.

#SPAIN: The leader of Catalonia vowed to go ahead with an independent vote, but in a different form.

#UNITED KINGDOM: A terror trial suspect had Tony Blair’s address on a scrap of paper, a trial heard.

INNOVATION

• Dropbox distanced itself from claims that 7 million accounts were hacked.
• A flaw in Windows was allowed Russian hackers to spy on NATO.
• Scientists believe they might be onto a new method of nuclear fusion using something called a Z Machine. [Science]
• We moved a step closer to quantum computers. [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

This guy made a machine gun that makes and fires paper aeroplanes using a 3D printer. [core77]

Originally published 9pm