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

Fine Gael launch their 2014 elections campaign. Eamonn Farrell / Photocall Ireland Eamonn Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore says he won’t be relinquishing his leadership of the Labour Party in the wake of poor election polling. 
• Former Anglo executives Pat Whelan and Willie McAteer will have to wait one more day for their sentences after a hearing dragged into a second day.
• 4,300 pigs died in a fire at a farm in Northern Ireland over the weekend.
• The GRA conference heard An Garda Síochána have been ‘rocked by allegations and inquiries’.
• Ireland’s new postcode system is to be called ‘Eircode’.
• A man was shot several times as he answered his front door in Co Meath.
• A woman in her fifties died in a house fire in Co Clare.
• An Irishman discovered a supernova from his back garden with a telescope he built himself.
• Dublin’s Molly Malone statue is moving to make way for Luas works.

INTERNATIONAL

Max Clifford stands with his daughter Louise. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#GUILTY: Max Clifford has been found guilty on eight charges of indecent assault against women and girls as young as 15.

#EGYPT: Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 682 other alleged Islamists were sentenced to death.

#UK: A 15-year-old was arrested after a teacher was stabbed to death at a school in Leeds.

#US: Ten people were killed by tornadoes in Arkansas and Oklahoma yesterday.

INNOVATION

• Google has been testing its self-driving cars in city traffic. Here’s what they look like.
• After turning off support for it three weeks ago, Windows XP users could be in serious trouble thanks to a security flaw in Internet Explorer.
  

PARTING SHOT

An Israeli company has developed a technology that allows wheelchairs and bicycles to pretty much bounce over bumps and down stairs. They’re calling it Acrobat.