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

Adam O’ Brien (16), right, and Craig Dunphy (15) from St. Declan's Community College, Co. Waterford with their enterprise 'Neirbro’ worn by 'Max' pictured ahead of the Student Enterprise Awards National Finals in Croke Park on April 22nd Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• Minister Leo Varadkar said that banks are treating people on variable mortgages very badly
• A post mortem was carried out on a body recovered from a Co Cavan river
• The Marian Finucane RTÉ Radio One show is using stopwatches to ensure a balanced referendum debate
• Micheál Martin rubbished Sinn Féin’s connections with the 1916 Rising
• A body was found in the search for a missing oyster fisherman
• Olympic medallists Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympics
• Irish Water sent a bill to a man who died 11 years ago
• Breda O’Brien‘s comments that gay people should abstain from sex garnered quite a reaction
• Two children were injured in a rally accident
• An Irish-run company is at the centre of a Hillary Clinton controversy

INTERNATIONAL

Labour Party leader Ed Miliband (centre) meets members of the Praise House Community Church in Croydon, where he spoke to the congregation as part of his 2015 General Election campaign tour. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#LIBYA A boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized, with up to 700 feared dead

#USA Survivors remembered the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing

#LIVERPOOL Police are hunting a man whose mum and sister were found strangled and stabbed

#SOUTH AFRICA Six immigrants have died after being targeted in a wave of attacks

#SLOUGH A family of six went missing, and are feared to be on the way to Syria 

#ITALY The Turin Shroud is on show again – but is it real or fake?

INNOVATION

• A man ruptured his tendon playing Candy Crush Saga – so is that another thing we need to be worried about when it comes to technology? [The Guardian] 
• Star Wars fans! Come here and meet BB-8, the cuddly robot. [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

Oklahoma City National Memorial Oklahoma City National Memorial

On the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma city bombing, an interactive memorial has been launched to the 168 people who lost their lives.