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

Mark Redmond from Raheny winning the battle over Viking Max Bracy as 30,000 people turned out for the Battle of Clontarf Festival. Conor McCabe Photography Conor McCabe Photography

IRELAND

• A pair of opinion polls didn’t make great reading for the government
• The murder of a dissident republican was condemned
• A Fianna Fáil candidate put up election posters – four days early
• A Labour minister said fixed water charges were ‘ridiculous’
• Gardaí seized €300,000 worth of drugs from a “sophisticated” grow house
• Over 20,000 people commemorated the Battle of Clontarf
• Two men were charged and appeared in court in connection with ramming a Garda motorcycle yesterday
• Fianna Fáil said reports of a hole in the HSE budget showed the government had based the budget on “flaky assumptions”
• The establishment of the charities regulator missed a deadline
• An elderly woman was rescued from a burning house

INTERNATIONAL

The body of a passenger aboard the Sewol ferry which sank in the water off the southern coast, is carried by rescue workers upon its arrival at a port in Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea. Lee Jin-man Lee Jin-man

#KOREAN FERRY: Bodies have been removed from the sunken ferry in South Korea, bringing the official death toll to 32, but the captain of the vessel says that the decision not to evacuate was a safety measure.

#MH370: The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet has reached a “critical juncture”, Malaysia’s transport minister said today. Search teams may reassess the search area if they cannot find anything tomorrow.

#UKRAINE: Russia is attempting to convince pro-Moscow rebels in Ukraine to give up Eastern towns. Pro-Russian rebels still hold positions in a dozen Ukrainian cities.

INNOVATION

• Teleportation? Organs grown in labs? Colonising other planets? Not so far away, say a large group of Americans. [TheJournal.ie]
• This video of a rocket test flight is spectacular – and all filmed using a drone camera. [Geek.com]
• The fingerprint sensor on the Samsung Galaxy S5 has been hacked. [TheGuardian]

PARTING SHOT

Today marks International Record Store Day. Around the world, bands are filling stores to pay homage to the humble music shop. Here, Gizmodo writer Mario Aguilar argues that vinyl is the only way to own music and says that records are back to stay.