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

Cherry Blossom trees in bloom in the Herbert Park in Dublin today Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• The car missing men Eoin O’Connor and Anthony Keegan were driving was found by gardaí beside a lake in Westmeath.
• An Irish mother who was living in a car for a week with her three children is now staying in a hotel.
• IBRC has made enough money from selling off its loan book to repay €12.9 billion it owes to NAMA.
• The body of a woman was found at a large retail store in Cork.
• A post-mortem is due to take place on the body of a man found in the canal in Dublin yesterday.
• Duncan Stewart will not be running in next month’s European elections. But mortgage campaigner David Hall will be going for the Dublin-west by-election seat.
• There was some agro in Dublin when one candidate took down another’s election poster.
• Two men are due in court over an attempted armed robbery at a Permanent TSB branch in Wexford.
• A 23-year-old man is due in court charged in connection with a fatal hit and run in Galway.
• The Reform Alliance put forward a new mortgage policy that restricts large lending by banks.
• Tom Meagher, husband of Jill Meagher, who was raped and murdered in Australia 18 months ago, is to appear on the Late Late Show to speak about his campaign against domestic violence.

INTERNATIONAL

Marwan Elboury with his three year old pet Rouen French ducks, Donald and Daffy in London. John Stillwell / PA Wire John Stillwell / PA Wire / PA Wire

#RIP: Former Barcelona manager Tito Vilanova died aged 45 after a three-year fight against cancer.

#HIJACK: Indonesian media incorrectly reported that there was an attempted hijack on a Virgin Australia plane, in fact the alarm was caused by a drunk passenger.

#KOREA: Dive teams are racing to pull more than 100 bodies from a sunken South Korean ferry as storm clouds loomed.

#DRUGS: Britain’s Royal Navy found €170 million worth of heroin off the east coast of Africa.

#UKRAINE: The United States has warned Russia against making an “expensive mistake” in Ukraine.

INNOVATION

• Nissan has begun testing a car which repels water, mud and dirt.
• The UK Government is to spend £200 million on one of the biggest ice-breaking research vessles in the world. It’s rather odd looking if you ask us. [BBC].

PARTING SHOT

A researcher at  Boston University  has used an MRI scanner to create a series of gifs that show you what fruit and veg look like on the inside. The’re corn, tomato and even a banana. The results are either hypnotic or stomach churning depending on your state of mind.