Updated 11.19 pm

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

IRELAND

Dancers prepare for Ballet Ireland's 'Tutus & Beyond' show which begins next week. Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Dunnes Stores workers went on strike, the company responded with an online sale.
• A 39-year-old neighbour appeared in court over a fire that destroyed six homes.
• The health service is to get a funding injection of €70 million to battle overcrowding.
• The Socialist Party accused Labour of trying to “gag” the anti-water charges campaign by attacking RTÉ.
  
• Two men were arrested in connection with a bomb hoax at the Intel plant in Lexlip.
• Fianna Fáil’s Éamon Ó Cuív says his party’s ‘lack of progress is breaking his heart’.
• The Department of Health is to consider making people pay more to stay in long-term nursing home care.
• A new forest-based holiday resort in Longford is promising to create 1,000 permanent jobs.
• David Bowie is teaming up with Irish playwright Enda Walsh to write a musical.

INTERNATIONAL

'Thunderbird 4' travels down the River Thames as a new series returns on Saturday. David Parry David Parry

#KENYA: At least 147 students were massacred when a Somalian Islamist group attacked a Kenyan university.

#GERMANWINGS: It emerged that Andreas Lubitz searched online for information about suicide and cockpit doors in the week before the disaster.

#LEADERS DEBATE: Nigel Farage was accused of “scaremongering” after singling out foreign-born HIV sufferers during a live TV debate. .

#NEW YORK: The FBI says it has arrested two women accused of plotting to plant a bomb in the US. [BBC]

INNOVATION

• Can you resist pushing the button that is driving the internet mad? Reddit is betting you can’t.
  
• BitTorrent has gone even more mainstream by partnering with the BBC to distribute Doctor Who, for a charge. [Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

Dads eh? Always sending out the Vibes.